Prefaced by Earl Roberts’s warnings in the House of Lords about Britain’s unready army, this imagined war opens with a surprise German landing on the east coast. Proclamations, city panic, a state of siege, battles in Essex and Norfolk villages and the fall of London are told in the manner of a war correspondent’s dispatches, complete with the enemy’s printed notices to the conquered towns.
One of the best-known works of Edwardian invasion literature, a vivid document of the fears that ran ahead of 1914. Download the free EPUB.