The battle of Dorking, reminiscences of a volunteer
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The battle of Dorking, reminiscences of a volunteer
Language
eng
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Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The battle of Dorking
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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reminiscences of a volunteer
Summary
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
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