THE GREAT WAR IN ENGLAND IN 1897.
By WILLIAM LE QUEUX, F.R.G.S.
With Numerous Illustrations by T. S. Crowther and Captain C. Field, and Nine Military Maps.
The Opinions of some Great Authorities.
The Duke of Cambridge, writing to the Author, says: "Such books cannot fail to have a good effect in inducing people to think more seriously of the necessity which lies upon the whole country to always be prepared, and to be more openhanded in giving money for the means of defence."
Field Marshal Lord Wolseley says: "A pleasure to peruse it."
The Marquis of Salisbury says: "It is very realistic and interesting."
Lord George Hamilton says: "It is very striking and original."
Sir C. Dilke says: "I think it is most valuable as tending to make people realise how little we are prepared for war."
Opinions of the London Press.
The Times says: "Everything that can spice a sensational volume."
The Morning Post says: "Few works can compare in stirring incidents or careful elaboration of detail.... A great deal of what he forecasts would be very likely to occur if once England were in the clutches of a strong enemy, and in the matter of description wherein the tumult and carnage is brought vividly before the reader.... A clever and exciting book."
The Standard says: "Full of excitement and realism."
The Globe says: "It is vigorous and rousing.... Will do a public service."
The Sun says: "Mr. Le Queux' narrative is well and spiritedly written."
The Evening News says: "Mr. Le Queux has succeeded in a very difficult task. He has brought home to us the dangers we expose ourselves if we neglect to maintain our Army and Navy in an adequate state of efficiency."
The Daily Graphic says: "Various essays have been made to forecast the next great European war, but Mr. William Le Queux' volume is certainly the most comprehensive and thrilling of anything yet attempted. Regarded simply as a work of fiction, it is exciting enough to satisfy the most enthusiastic lover of 'blood and thunder' literature. In its more serious aspect—and it is this aspect, of course, which the author desires for it—this book certainly evidences serious thought.... It is all very graphic and very thrilling, especially the bombardment of London by the Russians, and the author has not scrupled to avail himself of the latest, even of the future, resources of science."
Naval and Military Record says: "Mr. Le Queux has special qualifications for the task. He knows a great deal of our Army and Navy, and he is familiar with continental systems and sentiment. The narrative is lively and spirited, and the author writes with an air of conviction which is calculated to carry the reader on from beginning to end."
Admiralty and Horse Guards Gazette says: "Mr. Le Queux is a vivid writer, and his work gives evidence of care and thoroughness. The chapter dealing with the march of the French on London is particularly fine. The author's production is the best of the kind we have come across for some time. It should emphasise our old contention as to the unreadiness for active service on a prolonged campaign of the sea and land forces of the Empire."
Army and Navy Gazette says: "The story is a capital one, full of interest and incident, well sustained and well told."
The Idler says: "Mr. Le Queux writes brilliantly, sensibly, and with a thorough mastery of his subject."
The Sketch says: "No novel of the day comes up to Mr. Le Queux' 'Great War in England in 1897' for excitement. From the preface to the last paragraph he has kept up his prophetic heroics in magnificent style, and if his patriotism does not scatter our indifference to our insular defences, why, then, nothing will. It is really a terrifying book. Mr. Le Queux has power to shake one's nerves as he foretells fights and slaughters in peaceful suburbs."
The World says: "It serves to bring home in a very realistic fashion the horrors of a war brought into our very midst."
To-Day says: "A mastery of military and naval details is displayed with conception and execution."
The Review of Reviews says: "The story is useful as a warning, and is worked out with much knowledge."
The Gentlewoman says: "Once having started, I couldn't lay it down till I had made an end thereto."
The Literary World says: "It is undoubtedly one of the books of the year. It is so ingenious and so exciting, it is at once extremely technical and extremely readable. The book is a great book, and one that no Englishman could read without a thrill."
The Publishers' Circular says: "Mr. Le Queux shows us what will happen if we do not better prepare ourselves."
Read what the Country Press say.
Manchester Evening News says: "Lovers of exciting literature will be satisfied to the full with the graphic story."
Liverpool Daily Mercury says: "Extremely interesting, and well worth reading."
Liverpool Daily Chronicle says:—"The story is full of stirring episode."
Birmingham Daily Post says: "The scenes are marked with real and affecting power."
Sheffield Daily Telegraph says: "We offer criticism in no carping spirit, but as part of our grateful acknowledgment for a brilliant, patriotic, and useful work."
Yorkshire Post says: "Well calculated to make the nervous tremble at every rumour of foreign complications."
The Scotsman says: "Strategical and other problems are elaborately worked out.... Amusing, entertaining, and exciting."
The North British Mail says: "It is a very powerful work."
Glasgow Herald says: "One of the best books we have read on a subject on which it is only too easy to be tiresome."
Glasgow Evening News says: "Whether as a romance or as a prophecy it is highly interesting."
The Western Morning News says: "Very exciting reading. Of real literary merit."
Bradford Daily Argus says: "Full of interesting and exciting reading."
Read what the Foreign and Colonial Press say.
Sydney Daily Telegraph says: "The writer's capability to speak regarding his subject is displayed on every page of the book. It is splendidly written."
The Belgian News says: "The book is a remarkable and a phenomenal success."
The Palladium (Newhaven, Conn.) says: "One of the most successful books of the season."
"Il Capitano Nemo," the well-known Italian naval writer, in L'Opinione of Rome, says that the problems put forward by Mr. Le Queux should secure the serious consideration of European Governments. "It is unquestionably a most important book," he says; "it is of interest to everyone, and the minuteness of its detail is astonishing. I can recommend it to the Italian public as a very startling yet highly instructive book."
The Italia Marinara says: "It is not a mere fantastic romance; it is a book to study seriously, and we recommend it to the Army and Navy of Italy, for it contains many valuable hints."
Il Secolo says: "A very remarkable and important work. There is genius in every line. The descriptions are most realistic, and it is of interest to everybody."
The China Telegraph says it is "of really intense and thrilling interest."
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