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The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-Come
Author: | I. F. Clarke |
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Liverpool University Press, 1997 |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
In the second of a series of anthologies on future war stories, the leading specialist in the field presents a selection of prophetic tales about the conflict-to-come between the British and the Germans, tales which had immense influence in the quarter-century before the First World War. An extensive range of contemporary illustrations is included.
Contents:
- 1 - 'Horribly Stuffed with Epithets of War' - essay by I. F. Clarke
- 29 - The Great War of 198- (excerpt) - (1893) - shortfiction by Colonel J. F. Maurice, R. A. and Rear-Admiral P. Colomb and Captain F. N. Maude and Archibald Forbes and Charles Lowe and D. Christie Murray and F. Scudamore
- 72 - The Final War (excerpt) - (1896) - shortfiction by Louis Tracy
- 80 - The Spies of the Wight (excerpt) - (1899) - shortfiction by Headon Hill
- 87 - Die Abrechnung mit England (excerpt) - (1900) - shortfiction by Karl Eisenhart
- 102 - The Invaders (excerpt) - (1901) - shortfiction by Louis Tracy
- 108 - The Enemy in Our Midst (excerpt) - (1903) - shortfiction by Walter Wood
- 116 - The Riddle of the Sands (excerpt) - (1903) - shortfiction by Erskine Childers
- 129 - A New Trafalgar (excerpt) - (1902) - shortfiction by A. C. Curtis
- 139 - The Invasion of 1910 (excerpt) - (1906) - shortfiction by William Le Queux
- 152 - When the Eagle Flies Seaward (excerpt) - (1907) - shortfiction by Patrick Vaux and Lionel Yexley
- 167 - The Death Trap (excerpt) - (1907) - shortfiction by Robert W. Cole (variant of The Death Trap (Extract)) [as by Robert William Cole ]
- 178 - The Child's Guide to Knowledge - (1909) - shortstory by Anonymous
- 183 - The Coming Conquest of England (excerpt) - (1906) - shortfiction by August Niemann
- 201 - Armageddon 190- (excerpt) - (1907) - shortfiction by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff [as by Seestern ]
- 225 - Die 'Offensiv-Invasion' gegen England (excerpt) - (1907) - shortfiction by Karl Bliebtreu
- 233 - Berlin-Bagdad: Das Deutsche Weltreich im Zeitalter der Luftschifffahrt, 1910-1931 (excerpt) - (1907) - shortfiction by Rudolf Martin
- 249 - The Real Le Queux (excerpt) - (1938) - shortfiction by N. St. Barbe Sladen
- 256 - Before the Lights Went Out (excerpt) - (1945) - shortfiction by Esmé Wingfield-Stratford
- 256 - Bouquets for Fleet Street (excerpt) - (1951) - shortfiction by Bernard Falk
- 258 - About German Spies - (1910) - essay by Charles Lowe
- 276 - The Essence of Parliament - (1908) - shortstory by Anonymous
- 278 - Les Fictions guerrières anglaises - (1910) - essay by Louis C.
- 281 - Incidents of the Coming Invasion of England (cartoon) - (1910) - interior artwork by W. Heath Robinson
- 293 - Die Invasion Englands in englischer Belechtung - (1908) - essay by Anonymous
- 296 - Vademecum für Phantasiestrategen - (1908) - essay by Carl Siwinna
- 313 - The Swoop! or, How Clarence Saved England (excerpt) - (1909) - shortfiction by P. G. Wodehouse
- 326 - The Boy Galloper (excerpt) - (1903) - shortfiction by L. James
- 339 - The Message (excerpt) - (1907) - shortfiction by A. J. Dawson
- 356 - When England Slept - (1909) - shortstory by Capt. H. Curties
- 363 - The North Sea Bubble - (1906) - shortstory by Ernest Oldmeadow
- 368 - When William Came (excerpt) - (1913) - shortfiction by Saki
- 377 - The Cliffs - (1909) - poem by Charles Doughty
- 381 - The Battle of the North Sea (excerpt) - (1912) - shortfiction by Rear Admiral Eardley-Wilmot
- 385 - 'Sink, Burn, Destroy': Der Schlag gegen Deutschland (excerpt) - (1905) - shortfiction by Anonymous
- 390 - The Germans in Hampton Court (excerpt) - (1904) - shortfiction by August Niemann
- 398 - 100 Jahre deutsche Zukunft (excerpt) - (1913) - shortfiction by Max Heinrichka
- 408 - Hindenburgs Einmarsch in London (excerpt) - (1915) - shortfiction by Paul Georg Münch
- 413 - America Fallen (excerpt) - (1915) - shortfiction by J. Bernard Walker
- 413 - Epilogue: Meanwhile, Across the Atlantic - essay by I. F. Clarke
- 413 - Introduction (America Fallen by J. Bernard Walker) - (1915) - essay by George Haven Putnam
- 422 - Notes (The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914) - essay by I. F. Clarke
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