The Battle of Dorking

by George Tomkyns Chesney

Overview

The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer is an 1871 novella by George Tomkyns Chesney, starting the genre of invasion literature and an important precursor of science fiction. Written just after the Prussian victory in the Franco-Prussian War, it describes an invasion of Britain by a German-speaking country referred to in oblique terms as The Other Power or The Enemy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783985314157
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	08/30/2021
Series:	The World At War
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	63
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Sir George Tomkyns Chesney KCB CSI CIE (30 April 1830 – 31 March 1895) was a British Army general, politician, and writer of fiction. He is remembered as the author of the novella The Battle of Dorking (1871), a founding work in the genre of invasion literature.