William Le Queux ~6 hr read

England lies unprepared, and the enemy strikes, invasion, the siege of a great capital, a nation caught fatally unready, in a vivid forecast written to rouse a complacent country to its peril.

William Le Queux's 1910 novel is a dramatic work of invasion literature and future-war fiction. Alarmist, vivid, prophetic. Read it for a landmark of the pre-war invasion-scare genre, a propagandistic vision of Britain overrun, framed by Earl Roberts's real warnings about the dangers of military unpreparedness.

In its time

Published in 1910, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

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