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The Battle of Dorking

Posted on 1914 by George Tomkyns Chesney

Author: George Tomkyns Chesney

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Imaginary wars and battles

Page: 79

The Battle of Dorking

Posted on 2014-11-25 by George Tomkyns Chesney

Author: George Tomkyns Chesney

Publisher: Open Road Media

ISBN: 1497691052

Category: Fiction

Page: 47

Britain is under attack, and winning at Dorking is the only way the empire can be saved It is the late nineteenth century, and a country much like Germany is on the move in Europe. It has already beaten its rivals on the continent and mobilized to the Netherlands, provoking the fear of British citizens. Then the nation strikes. Its powerful weapons destroy the Royal Navy, and invasion cannot be far behind. Written as a hypothetical exercise to raise awareness among average British citizens about the potential danger that a resurgent Germany could pose, The Battle of Dorking earned its place in literary history as the forerunner to the invasion-novel genre, predating The War of the Worlds by almost twenty years. The novel’s drama, which culminates in a fight that will change the course of history forever, thrilled audiences when it was originally released as a serial, and it maintains its power today. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

The Fall of England?

Posted on 1871 by George Tomkyns Chesney

The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer

Author: George Tomkyns Chesney

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Imaginary wars and battles

Page: 66

When William Came

Posted on 1914 by Saki

A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns

Author: Saki

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: London (England)

Page: 322

The Battle Of Dorking

Posted on 2004-06-01 by George Chesney

Author: George Chesney

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing

ISBN: 9781419153679

Category: Fiction

Page: 48

The notorious account of future war that so stunned 1870s Britain.

The Battle of Dorking

Posted on 1871 by Volunteer (A, pseud. van George Tomkyns Chesney.),George Tomkyns Chesney

Reminiscenses of A Volunteer

Author: Volunteer (A, pseud. van George Tomkyns Chesney.),George Tomkyns Chesney

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Great Britain

Page: 64

The Battle of Dorking 1871

Posted on 2013-03-21 by George Tomkyns Chesney

With Introduction by G. H. Powell and Follow-Up the Lull Before Dorking

Author: George Tomkyns Chesney

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

ISBN: 9781483912202

Category:

Page: 120

This fictitious invasion classic is introduced by G.H. Powell, and followed by "What Happened After The Battle of Dorking 1871" and the pamphlet "The Lull Before Dorking 1871." The Battle of Dorking: Britain is invaded by a country similar to Germany in this vivid account of troops marching across eastern England to the heart of London. George Tomkyns Chesney's classic, written after the Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian War, led to the genre of invasion fiction and science fiction. The novel spawned copycat stories including What Happened After The Battle of Dorking and led to more serious debate about Britain's lack of preparedness for war in the House of Commons.

What Happened After the Battle of Dorking

Posted on 1871 by Charles John Stone

Reminiscences of a Volunteer. Being an Account of the Victory at Tunbridge Wells

Author: Charles John Stone

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Imaginary wars and battles

Page: 58

The War of the Worlds

Posted on 1898 by Herbert George Wells

Author: Herbert George Wells

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Science fiction

Page: 288

H.G. Wells's hugely influential book tracks the exploits of a writer who struggles to survive an alien invasion of Victorian England. After seeing the monstrous Martians firsthand, the narrator attempts to evade their destructive mechanized vehicles and must stay on the run to avoid detection. As he meets other desperate humans, he becomes increasingly pessimistic about any chance of survival. The novel stands as a major milestone in science-fiction literature, inspiring legions of subsequent writers and an endless array of hostile-alien scenarios.

The Great War in England in 1897

Posted on 1894 by William Le Queux

Author: William Le Queux

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Great Britain

Page: 330

After the Battle of Dorking

Posted on 1871 by N.A

Or, What Became of the Invaders!

Author: N.A

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Imaginary wars and battles

Page: 23

The Dilemma, by the Author of 'the Battle of Dorking'

Posted on 2018-02-23 by George Tomkyns Chesney

Author: George Tomkyns Chesney

Publisher: Palala Press

ISBN: 9781378555217

Category: History

Page: 332

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Rumors of War and Infernal Machines

Posted on 2003 by Charles E. Gannon

Technomilitary Agenda-setting in American and British Speculative Fiction

Author: Charles E. Gannon

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9780742540354

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 311

This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America. Tracing this phenomenon from its roots in Victorian Britain, Gannon convincingly demonstrates that military fiction anticipated and even influenced the evolution of the tank, the development of the airplane, and also the bitter political battles within Britain's War Office and the Admiralty. In the United States, future-fictions and Cold-War thrillers were an officially acknowledged factor in the Pentagon's R&D agendas, and often gave rise_and shape_to the strategic development of technologies as diverse as automation, atomic weaponry, aerospace vehicles, and Star Wars. With its detailed political, historical, and literary analysis of the American and European fascination with hi-tech warfare, this lively, informative, and revealing study will appeal to students, general readers, literary and cultural scholars, and military and history enthusiasts.

The Pity of War

Posted on 2008-08-05 by Niall Ferguson

Explaining World War I

Author: Niall Ferguson

Publisher: Basic Books

ISBN: 078672529X

Category: History

Page: 352

In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. Britain, according to Ferguson, entered into war based on naïve assumptions of German aims—and England's entry into the war transformed a Continental conflict into a world war, which they then badly mishandled, necessitating American involvement. The war was not inevitable, Ferguson argues, but rather the result of the mistaken decisions of individuals who would later claim to have been in the grip of huge impersonal forces.That the war was wicked, horrific, inhuman,is memorialized in part by the poetry of men like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, but also by cold statistics. More British soldiers were killed in the first day of the Battle of the Somme than Americans in the Vietnam War; indeed, the total British fatalities in that single battle—some 420,000—exceeds the entire American fatalities for both World Wars. And yet, as Ferguson writes, while the war itself was a disastrous folly, the great majority of men who fought it did so with enthusiasm. Ferguson vividly brings back to life this terrifying period, not through dry citation of chronological chapter and verse but through a series of brilliant chapters focusing on key ways in which we now view the First World War.For anyone wanting to understand why wars are fought, why men are willing to fight them, and why the world is as it is today, there is no sharper nor more stimulating guide than Niall Ferguson's The Pity of War.

The Future of War

Posted on 2017-10-10 by Lawrence Freedman

A History

Author: Lawrence Freedman

Publisher: PublicAffairs

ISBN: 1610393066

Category: History

Page: 400

Questions about the future of war are a regular feature of political debate, strategic analysis, and popular fiction. Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might an aggressor have in mind? What are the best forms of defense? How might peace be preserved or conflict resolved? From the French rout at Sedan in 1870 to the relentless contemporary insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lawrence Freedman, a world-renowned military thinker, reveals how most claims from the military futurists are wrong. But they remain influential nonetheless. Freedman shows how those who have imagined future war have often had an idealized notion of it as confined, brief, and decisive, and have regularly taken insufficient account of the possibility of long wars-hence the stubborn persistence of the idea of a knockout blow, whether through a dashing land offensive, nuclear first strike, or cyberattack. He also notes the lack of attention paid to civil wars until the West began to intervene in them during the 1990s, and how the boundaries between peace and war, between the military, the civilian, and the criminal are becoming increasingly blurred. Freedman's account of a century and a half of warfare and the (often misconceived) thinking that precedes war is a challenge to hawks and doves alike, and puts current strategic thinking into a bracing historical perspective.

Ghost Fleet

Posted on 2015-06-30 by P. W. Singer,August Cole

A Novel of the Next World War

Author: P. W. Singer,August Cole

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

ISBN: 0544142845

Category: Fiction

Page: 416

Two authorities on future warfare join forces to create a taut, convincing novel—set in 2026—about a besieged America battling for its very existence.

What Happened After the Battle of Dorking

Posted on 2009-01 by Charles John Stone

Author: Charles John Stone

Publisher: BiblioBazaar, LLC

ISBN: 9780559932526

Category: History

Page: 60

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The Dilemma, by the Author of 'the Battle of Dorking'. - Primary Source Edition

Posted on 2013-09 by George Tomkyns Chesney

Author: George Tomkyns Chesney

Publisher: Nabu Press

ISBN: 9781289462277

Category:

Page: 332

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The battle of Dorking. Late for the train. Aytoun, W.E. The congress and the agapedome. Maga's birthday

Posted on 1905 by N.A

Author: N.A

Publisher: N.A

ISBN: N.A

Category: Short stories

Page: N.A