- Paperback: 204 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks (8 May 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192832859
- ISBN-13: 978-0192832856
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 721,500 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Battle of Dorking (1871) is a vivid account of a German invasion of the United Kingdom, well calculated to inflame British anxieties about the future of Europe and the emergence of Germany as a great military power. `There, across the narrow Straits, was the writing on the wall; but we would not choose to read it.' Appearing anonymously for the first time in Blackwood's Magazine, it sparked instant controversy, artfully concealing an argument for universal military service in an old man's story of too little and too late: the German invaders conquer because they are better trained, better equipped and have a vast conscript army. Saki's bitter story, When William Came (1913), written when a great European war seemed almost unavoidable, depicts life in Britain under the Hohenzollerns' rule from Buckingham Palace, and a nation of indolent and self-interested time-servers, deaf to all calls for patriotic action. This book is intended for both the general public & undergraduate/postgraduate students of popular fiction and the First World War Fiction.
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21 Dec 2000
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It's sad that they are no longer in print. They were in print just a few months ago. Good book, fiction about a war between Germany & England in the 1880's or so. Well done & easy to read but too short! Much better than H.G.Well's stuff in terms of an interesting story.
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The Battle of Dorking
20 Jan 2008
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The short story "The Battle of Dorking" was the genesis of the 'Invasion Literature' genre. It first appeared in Blackwood's Magazine in 1871. For a lot more historical information about this book and its later influences, see the Wiki pedia article on "Invasion Literature" which is quite good.
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