Outside the main scope of this website but an interesting novel from 1929 that shows that invasion literature continued into the inter-war years. The Red Napoleon is a 1929 novel by Floyd Gibbons predicting a Soviet conquest of Europe and invasion of America. The novel contains strong racial overtones such as expressed fear of the […]
Thomas Dixon, The Fall of a Nation: A Sequel to The Birth of a Nation, 1916 A warning story about an invasion of America by a prominent White Supremacist. The Fall of a Nation, a Sequel to The Birth of a Nation, is an invasion literature novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. Dixon described it as […]
W. Holt White, The Earthquake (1906). An earthquake & German invasion simultaneously hit London. In the early hours of September 8, 1907 , an earthquake of unprecedented power strikes London. Nelson’s Column topples over. St. Paul’s Cathedral is shaken to pieces. The Houses of Parliament subside into a great heap of rubble Westminster Abbey party […]
The Private War – Being the Truth about Gordon Traill – His Personal Statement by Louis Joseph Vance and H. C. Edwards, 1906, D. Appleton & Co An expose style account of mysterious confrontations with the German Navy in the North Sea that makes reference to the Dogger Bank Incident. Full text at: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435075846964&view=2up&seq=8
Hew Scott (1907) The Way of War, London, John Long A plan for a German invasion is uncovered. Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser – Thursday 13 June 1907, p.10: Tales of invasion, particularly of German invasion, have been so frequent during the past year or two, that Mr. Hew Scott courted, if not failure, […]
Maximilian Moltruhn (1871) The Other Side of the Battle of Dorking, or Reminisences of an Invader, London, Whittaker Moltruhn is believed to be the pseudonym of an unidentified British writer. The Other Side at the Battle of Dorking (1871) by Maximilian Moltruhn, retelling the original tale of British defeat from a German viewpoint. A German […]
Clarendon Macaulay [Walter Marshall Adams] (1874) The Carving of Turkey; a chapter of European history, from sources hitherto unpublished. London, Meads & Co.
G. Rome Hall (1904) The Black Fortnight, Or, The Invasion of 1915, Swan Sonnenschein & Co The Times Literary Supplement (London), Friday, February 26, 1904; p.63: THE BLACK FORTNIGHT, or The Invasion of 1915 by G. Rome Hall, M.D. 128 pp., Sonnenschein,1s. Dr. Hall writes in the interest of social democracv, and shows how the […]
B. S. Townroe, H. (1909) A Nation in Arms (Play) A play produced on behalf of the National Service League as a counter to An Englishman’s Home. The play and its background is described in Harry Woods article: Representations of compulsory military service in Edwardian Invasion-scare fiction 1899-1914 A contemporary Review in Manchester Courier and […]
Anonymous (1886) Coming Wars – Great Events & End of This Age on April 11th, 1901 published by Christian Herald A reprint of a religious pamphlet first issued in 1881 and forecasting upheavals and wars in Europe coupled with forecasts of Armageddon in 1901. COMING WARS & GREAT EVENTS,AND NINE SIGNS OF THE APPROACHING FINAL […]