Book description
...No fewer than two hundred thousand Germans were already upon English soil! The outlook grew blacker every hour.
Eight years before the outbreak of the First World War, when national hysteria over the supposed presence of German spies in England gripped the country, the journalist and novelist William Le Queux…
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1 author picked If England Were Invaded as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Much of my background as a historian focuses on the First World War, and, as a result, I have a particular interest in the ‘invasion literature’ of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This is a particularly fun and interesting example in that it creates newspaper and press reports to help grant a level of tactile reality to the unfolding invasion of England.
Books like this had a significant impact on British popular culture and mindset before 1914, and Le Queux’s decision to make his fictional work appear to be nonfiction where possible works incredibly well and, as it…
From Chris' list on fictional non-fiction.
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