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The Great War in England

William Le Queux

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. . .Although the police made hundreds of arrests, and the stipendiary sat from early morning until late at night, Anarchist demonstrations were held[52] every evening in the city and suburbs, always resulting in pillage, incendiarism, and not unfrequently in murder. In grey, money-making Stockport, in grimy Salford, in smoky Pendleton, and even in aristocratic Eccles, these demonstrations were held, and the self-styled "soldiers of the social revolution" marched over the granite roads, headed by a dirty scarlet flag, hounding down the Government, and crying shame upon them for the apathy with which they had regarded the presence of the bearded Caucasian Tcherkesses of the White Tsar.

The kingdom was in wild turmoil, for horror heaped upon horror. Outrages that commenced in London were repeated with appalling frequency in the great towns in the provinces. An attempt had been made to assassinate the Premier while speaking in the Town Hall, Birmingham, the bomb which. . . Read More

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3.00
- Joe - Sep 06, 2023

It is over 100 years old, so I was expecting it be written in a dated format, and it was. At times it was good, other times it got too much in the details which never are covered again as recurring information that one would need to know. While the British suffers defeats and pushed back, they alway

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- Janne - Jan 13, 2023

One of the most popular examples of the fin-de-siecle "invasion literature" or "future war" literature, which was in such huge demand in England in the late 19th century. The book depicts a surprise invasion against England by a coalition led by France and Russia, in the then near future of 1897. Ov

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- Adam - Nov 10, 2017

Le Queux wrote this book in 1894 to highlight what he believed was the UK's weakness in the face of its European rivals. The book hypothesizes a combined Franco-Russian invasion that the UK attempts to fight off with the gallant assistance of Germany, Austria and Italy.

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