William Le Queux ~6 hr read

France and Russia fall upon an unprepared England, and the nation reels under invasion, a vivid forecast of the coming war, written to rouse a complacent country to its perils.

William Le Queux's 1894 novel is a hugely popular and influential work of invasion literature and future-war fiction. Alarmist, vivid, prophetic. Read it for a landmark of the invasion-scare genre, a dramatic, propagandistic vision of England overrun, from a master of the form that fed decades of pre-war anxiety.

In its time

Published in 1897, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

T. S. C. Crowther