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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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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9783985314157 ● Verlag Otbebookpublishing ● Erscheinungsjahr 2021 ● herunterladbar 3 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 8088677 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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