WILLIAM LE QUEUX: 15 Dystopian Novels & Espionage Thrillers (Illustrated Edition). William Le Queux
distant valley, it showed a corpse lying in the snow with face upturned. In the white wrinkled brow was a small dark-blue hole from which blood had oozed over the pallid cheek, leaving an ugly stain. The staring eyes were wide open, with a look of unutterable horror in them, and beside the thin clenched hand lay a revolver, one chamber of which had been discharged!
The dreary gloom of winter passed, and there dawned a new era of prosperity for England.
Dark days were succeeded by a period of happiness and rejoicing, and Britannia, grasping her trident again, seated herself on her shield beside the sea, Ruler of the Waves, Queen of Nations, and Empress of the World.
THE END.
The Invasion of 1910
CHAPTER IV A PROPHECY FULFILLED
CHAPTER V OUR FLEET TAKEN UNAWARES
CHAPTER VI FIERCE CRUISER BATTLE
CHAPTER VII CONTINUATION OF THE STRUGGLE AT SEA
CHAPTER VIII SITUATION IN THE NORTH
CHAPTER IX STATE OF SIEGE DECLARED
CHAPTER X HOW THE ENEMY DEALT THE BLOW
CHAPTER XI GERMANS LANDING AT HULL AND GOOLE
CHAPTER XII DESPERATE FIGHTING IN ESSEX
CHAPTER XIV BRITISH SUCCESS AT ROYSTON
CHAPTER XV BRITISH ABANDON COLCHESTER
CHAPTER XVI FIERCE FIGHTING AT CHELMSFORD
CHAPTER XVII IN THE ENEMY’S HANDS
CHAPTER XVIII THE FEELING IN LONDON
CHAPTER II REPULSE OF THE GERMANS
CHAPTER IV BOMBARDMENT OF LONDON
CHAPTER VII TWO PERSONAL NARRATIVES
CHAPTER VIII GERMANS SACKING THE BANKS
CHAPTER IX WHAT WAS HAPPENING AT SEA
CHAPTER X SITUATION SOUTH OF THE THAMES
CHAPTER XI DEFENCES OF SOUTH LONDON
CHAPTER XII DAILY LIFE OF THE BELEAGUERED
CHAPTER XIII REVOLTS IN SHOREDITCH AND ISLINGTON
CHAPTER II SCENES AT WATERLOO BRIDGE
CHAPTER III GREAT BRITISH VICTORY
CHAPTER IV MASSACRE OF GERMANS IN LONDON
PREFACE
“I sometimes despair of the country ever becoming alive to the danger of the unpreparedness of our present position until too late to prevent some fatal catastrophe.”
This was the keynote of a solemn warning made in the House of Lords on July 10th of the present year by Earl Roberts. His lordship, while drawing attention to our present inadequate forces, strongly urged that action should be taken in accordance with the recommendations of the Elgin Commission that “no military system could be considered satisfactory which did not contain powers of expansion outside the limit of the regular forces of the Crown.”
“The lessons of the late war appear to have been completely forgotten. The one prevailing idea seems to be,” said Earl Roberts, “to cut down our military expenditure without reference to our increased responsibilities and our largely augmented revenue. History tells us in the plainest terms that an Empire which cannot defend its own possessions must inevitably perish.” And with this view both Lord Milner and the Marquis of Lansdowne concurred. But surely this is not enough. If we are to retain our position as the first nation in the world we must be prepared to