Walter Wood (1905) Submarined – Pearson’s Magazine, February 1905 A short story of a disabled British battleship taking refuge and defending itself against a submarine attack by a diver blowing up the submarine with a mine. In Walter Wood’s story, “Submarined,” the lieutenant of a damaged battleship turns the tables on an enemy submarine. The […]
General Staff [pseud.] (1906) The Writing on the Wall, London, William Heinemann The author was Major-General Thomas Picher. Presented as an excerpt of a history book from 1915 recounting the events of a successful German attack on Britain in 1908 and the ensuing war that involved also France, Austria and Russia. The object of this […]
George Griffith (1907) The world peril of 1910, London, F. V. White & Co. Ltd. CHAPTER I – A MOMENTOUS EXPERIMENT On the first day of July, 1908, a scene which was destined to become historic took place in the great Lecture Theatre in the Imperial College at Potsdam. It was just a year and […]
Naval Officer [Signed A H M] (1912) Great Was the Fall, London, J. Long An invasion by Germany on an unprepared Britain. Cautionary novel of the Battle of Dorking sort, with full novelistic treatment. The basic point of view is politically conservative grousing at British Naval unpreparedness due to false economy and ‘misdirection’ of government […]
Captain S. M. Eardley-Wilmot (1894) The Next Naval War , London, Edward Stanford A description of a future naval war between Britain and France written by a respected naval writer and historian. Eardley-Wilmot is an expert in naval matters, and it is interesting to read his predictions, put into the historical tense, of what will […]
The Riddle by Maldwin Drummond (1985) Nautical Books, London This is the definitive study of the background to the writing of The Riddle of the Sands. It includes details of Childers own sailing experiences and also a detailed account of the reception afforded the book in official circles and Childers involvement in this. Since 1904 […]
Anonymous (1871) Der Ruhm or The Wreck of German Unity – The Narrative of a Brandenburger Haupmann – Macmillan’s Magazine A counter to The Battle of Dorking.
George Tomkyns Chesney (1871) The Battle of Dorking, Blackwood’s Magazine For many, this is the work that is regarded as the start of Invasion Literature as a distinct genre. DURING THE EVENING OF 2 September 1871, the British Prime Minister spoke to the Working Men’s Liberal Association at Whitby in Yorkshire. Towards the end of […]
James Payn (1871) The Cruise of the Anti-Torpedo, Chambers Journal [Being an account of the voyage of the last ship left to England after its conquest by Bismark & Co. (Limited) ; what she did, and what she omitted to do; and how she finally succeeded single-handed (as a pawn regains a queen), in restoring […]
Anonymous (1877) Fifty Years Hence – An Old Soldiers Tale of England’s Downfall, London, G.W. Bacon & Co. A soldier’s reminiscences from 1927. Britain gets dragged into a conflict between Russia and Turkey on the Turkish side. Austria, our only ally, is pressured by Germany to stand aside and the British declare war on Russia […]