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The Coming Conquest of England
Author: August Niemann
Source: Project Gutenberg

A future war novel in which England is defeated by "the three great allied nations," Germany, France and Russia. One of the earliest post-1900 stories of a future war, "... a highly optimistic and amateurish attempt to rearrange the world to suit German pretensions."

[…] The story that I shall portray in the following pages is not a chapter of the world's past history; it is the picture as it clearly developed itself to my mind's eye, on the publication of the first despatch of the Viceroy Alexieff to the Tsar of Russia. And, simultaneously like a flash of lightning, the telegram which the Emperor William sent to the Boers after Jameson's Raid crosses my memory—that telegram which aroused in the heart of the German nation such an abiding echo. I gaze into the picture, and am mindful of the duties and aims of our German nation. My dreams, the dreams of a German, show me the war that is to be, and the victory of the three great allied nations. Germany, France, and Russia—and a new division of the possessions of the earth as the final aim and object of this gigantic universal war.

(authors preface)