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''The Invasion of 1910'' is a 1906 novel written mainly by William Le Queux (along with H. W. Wilson providing the naval chapters). It is one of the more famous examples of invasion literature. It is viewed by some as an example of pre-World War I Germanophobia. It can also be viewed as prescient, as it preached the need to prepare for war with Germany. ==Background== The novel was originally commissioned by Alfred Harmsworth as a serial which appeared in the ''Daily Mail'' from March 19, 1906. The story's rewrite to feature towns and villages with high Daily Mail readership,〔Eby, CD (1987) The road to Armageddon: the martial spirit in English popular literature, 1870-1914, Duke University Press P33〕 greatly increased the newspaper's circulation and made a small fortune for Le Queux; it was translated into twenty-seven languages, and over one million copies of the book edition were sold. The idea for the novel is alleged to have originated from Field Marshal Earl Roberts, who regularly lectured English schoolboys on the need to prepare for war. To Le Queux's dismay, a pirated and abridged German translation (with an altered ending) appeared the same year: ''Die Invasion von 1910: Einfall der Deutschen in England'' translated by Traugott Tamm.〔 It is noteworthy that in Le Queux's earlier novel ''The Great War in England in 1897'', it is France which invades Britain as an implacable enemy; in that book's plot, German soldiers land in Britain as allies coming to help repulse the French invasion, and are welcomed as saviors. In between Le Queux's two disparate depictions of an invaded Britain, the Entente Cordiale of 1904 changed the diplomatic and military landscape. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Invasion of 1910」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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