William Le Queux

Spies of the Kaiser (eBook, ePUB)

Plotting the Downfall of England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

William Le Queux was a famous journalist, writer and celebrated novelist, a master of the spy genre, and a vociferous critic of Britain's weak military defences before the First World War, known at the time and for the next twenty years as "The Great War". He is acknowledged as the principal precursor of that famous spy story author of the second half of the twentieth century, namely Ian Fleming.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609771904
• Artikelnr.: 49188412

Autorenporträt

William Tufnell Le Queux (1864 - 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat (honorary consul for San Marino), a traveller (in Europe, the Balkans and North Africa), a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909 and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter of which was a phenomenal bestseller.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, If England Knew 1. How the Plans of Rosyth were Stolen 2. The
Secret of the Silent Submarine 3. The Back-Door of England 4. How the
Germans are Preparing for Invasion 5. The Secret of the New British
Aeroplane 6. The Secret of the New Armour-Plates 7. The Secret of the
Improved 'Dreadnoughts' 8. The German Plot against England 9. The Secret of
our New Gun 10. The Secret of the Clyde Defences 11. The Peril of London
12. Ho~ Germany Foments Strife 13. Our Wireless Secrets 14. Playing a
Desperate Game