Two Envelopes And A Phone’s Reviews > The Invasion of 1910 > Status Update

Yes, the book has been dry reading at times. But the invasion of London, after the Germans have fought their way to it, has become the highlight of the book. More human factor and sequences involving civilians taking a last stand. Much tragedy. Big Ben, The British Museum, the fate of the banks and tube systems. It’s scary. It does make me think of Ukraine, for sure.

I’m up to Book II: ‘The Siege of London’. Uh-oh. I might leave London one more night in peace, and pick this up again tomorrow.

Lots of battles - claiming and losing territory, back and forth. England not doing that great, though…

The naval battle stuff went on for three or four chapters, and I’m glad we’re coming out of that now…but it was pretty gripping. One reviewer is correct: this has a Red Dawn feel, but this time it’s Germany ambushing England. So far, I’m quite into this. It’s unsettling.

Well, we're off to an exciting start. A 1906 novel - sort of an "alarmist", propaganda novel of its time - showing a German invasion of England in 1910, so as to get everyone more worried about this than they were. Now, the novel has become proto, Radium Age, Science Fiction, with a bit of "well, he wasn't exactly wrong, was he?!" afterthought. I encountered Le Queux's espionage short stories recently, and now this.