M. P. Shiel (1899) The Yellow Danger, London, Grant Richards Not all invasion threats were purported to come from the Germans, the French or from Anarchists: in M.P. Shiel’s Yellow Danger it is an army of Chinese who invade Europe. A contemporary review gives a good overview of the plot and style. Full text available […]
H.W. Wilson and A. White (1898), When War breaks out; being a selection from the letters of Andrew D. Jones, the London correspondent of “Calner’s weekly,” during the war between Great Britain and the allied powers of France and Russia, September 21st, 1900, to January 1st, 1901, London, Harper and Brothers [Book Review – Spectator […]
Stevenson, P. L. (1899), How The Jubilee Fleet Escaped Destruction and the Battle of Ushant: Or, Two Episodes in the Career of a Naval Officer. Illustrated by F.T. Jane PREFACE. DEAR R_____ I have already sent you various MSS. dealing with the career of our mutual friend the late lamented Captain John Marling, R.N., and […]
1896, Tracy, L. , The Final War Louis Tracy (1896) The Final War THE BALL AT THE EMBASSY The month of May in Paris, if the elements be reasonably propitious, is a perfectly delightful period, and May Day of 1898 heralded in the promise of a gracious summer. The French capital was more than ordinarily […]
Charles Gleig (1897) When All Men Starve – Showing How England Hazarded Her Naval Supremacy, And the Horrors Which Followed the Interruption of Her Food Supply, London & New York, John Lane The Boer War escalates into an Anglo-German war which is then joined by France and Russia. The French journals especially indulged in most […]
Colonel F.N. Maude (1900) The New Battle of Dorking In 1900… Colonel Maude described the initial success of a French invasion in The new Battle of Dorking. He planned his imaginary war on the fact that, “there are three months in every year—July, August, September—during which the French Army is fit for immediate warfare. And […]
Oshikawa Shunro (1900) Kaitei gunkan (The Submarine Battleship) (aka. The Undersea Battleship or The Underwater Battleship) Invasion literature had its impact also in Japan, at the time undergoing a fast process of modernization. Shunrō Oshikawa, a pioneer of Japanese science fiction and adventure stories (genres unknown in Japan until a few years earlier), published around […]
George Griffith (1901) The Raid of Le Vengeur, Pearson’s Magazine – February 1901 Chapter I.–THE DREAM OF CAPTAIN FLAUBERT. It was the third morning after the naval manoeuvres at Cherbourg, and since their conclusion Captain Leon Flaubert, of the Marine Experimental Department of the French Navy, had not had three consecutive hours’ sleep. He was […]
A.C. Curtis (1902) A New Trafalgar. A tale of the torpedo fleet – Smith, Elder & Co The story is the celebration of the new warship, the destroyer, a British invention which first came into service in 1893 [I. F. Clarke (1997) The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914. P.429] A. C. Curtis’s A New Trafalgar […]
Griffith, G. (1904) The Stolen Submarine – serialised in 1904 in Dundee Evening Telegraph. [Other sydications to be checked] Published in book form as The Stolen Submarine: A Tale of the Russo-Japanese War by by F. V. White & Co., Ltd. in London. An advanced French super-submarine is stolen and sold to Russia. ” THE […]