William Le Queux ~10 hr read

Germany falls upon an unready England, driving toward the siege of London itself, a detailed, sensational forecast of the coming war, framed by Earl Roberts's grave warnings to a complacent nation.

William Le Queux's 1906 novel is the most famous work of Edwardian invasion literature. Hugely influential, vivid, alarmist. Read it for the landmark that gripped a generation, a meticulously imagined German invasion and the siege of London, a bestseller that helped stoke Britain's pre-war anxieties.

In its time

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

Reading it

~10 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).