William Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat, a traveller, a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter becoming a bestseller.
Portrait by E. O. Hoppé, 1922
Cover of Zoraida, signed lower left by another flying buff, Harold H. Piffard
The Great War in England in 1897
The Great War in England in 1897 was written by William Le Queux and published in 1894.
Cover illustraion of the first edition