Invasion literature
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Invasion literature is a literary genre that was popular in the period between 1871 and the First World War. The invasion novel was first recognised as a literary genre in the UK, with the novella The
The Battle of Dorking (1871) established the genre of invasion literature. (Cover of the 1914 edition)
Joseph Pennell's 1918 Liberty bond poster calls up the pictorial image of an invaded, burning New York City.
"Promised Horrors of the French Invasion" – a cartoon by the British James Gillray published during the French Revolution and depicting a London occupied by the French
The Invasion of 1910
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The Invasion of 1910 is a 1906 novel written mainly by William Le Queux. It is one of the most famous examples of invasion literature. It is viewed by some as an example of pre-World War I Germanophob
Invasion literature
…receives French Algeria and Imperial Russian Central Asia and "Britannia" becomes "Empress of the World". Le Queux's most popular invasion novel was The Invasion of 1910 (1906), which was translated into twenty-seven languages and sold more than a million copies worldwide. Le Queux and his publisher changed the ending…
First edition