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The Battle of Dorking (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

The Battle of Dorking (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Chesney, G. T.

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HorrorGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 1447406176
ISBN13: 9781447406174
Publisher: Fantasy and Horror Classics
Published: May 5 2011
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

From the mind of Sir George Tomkyns Chesney (G. T. Chesney), a distinguished British military officer, comes a pioneering and explosively influential work of speculative fiction that created a national panic.

The Battle of Dorking was first published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine in 1871, terrifying Victorian Britain. Written in the form of a memoir from a survivor fifty years after the event, the story narrates the shocking, fictional invasion of England by a superior foreign power (implied to be Germany). The memoir recounts the complete and utter defeat of the unprepared British forces in a disastrous battle fought near the town of Dorking. Chesney wrote the tale as a stark, urgent warning against Britain's complacency, its lack of military preparedness, and its over-reliance on the Royal Navy.

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