The Red Napoleon
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The Red Napoleon is a 1929 novel by Floyd Gibbons predicting a Soviet conquest of Europe and invasion of America. It was inspired by speculation that a Soviet general might seize power in a coup and b
Dust-jacket from the first edition
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 Red Napoleon
…The novel was banned in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1934. The Red Napoleon was the first invasion novel to combine fears of "yellow peril" with fears of communism. The racial elements are the primary thematic focus of the text, with communism operating…
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