The tale of the next Great War, 1871-1914

fictions of future warfare and of battles still-to-come

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The tale of the next Great War, 1871-1914

fictions of future warfare and of battles still-to-come

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This selection of short stories offers a return journey through the future as it used to be. Time speeds backwards to the 1870s - to the alpha point of modern futuristic fiction - the opening years of that enchanted period before the First World War when Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and many able writers delighted readers from Sydney to Seattle with their most original revelations of things-to-come.

In all their anticipations, the dominant factor was the recognition that the new industrial societies would continue to evolve in obedience to the rate of change. One major event that caused all to think furiously about the future was the Franco-German War of 1870. The new weapons and the new methods of army organization had shown that the conduct of warfare was changing; and, in response to that perception of change, a new form of fiction took on the task of describing the conduct of the war-to-come.

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The tale of the next Great War, 1871-1914: fictions of future warfare and of battles still-to-come
1995, Syracuse University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction : The paper warriors and their fights of fantasy / I.F. Clarke
The Battle of Dorking : reminiscences of a volunteer (1871) / George Tomkyns Chesney
The Battle of Dorking (1871) / anonymous
Der Ruhm, or, The wreck of German unity. The narrative of a Brandenburger Hauptmann (1871) / anonymous
La Guerre au Vingtie Siècle (1887) / Albert Robida
The taking of Dover (1888) / Horace Francis Lester
In a conning tower : how I took HMS Majestic into action (1888) / Hugh Oakley Arnold-Forster
The stricken nation (1890) / Hugh Grattan Donnelly
The raid of Le Vengeur (1901) / George Griffith
The green curve / Ernest Swinton
The trenches (1908) / C.E. Vickers
The secret of the army aeroplane (1909) / A.A. Milne
The unparalleled invasion (1910) / Jack London
A vision of the future (1912) / Gustaf Janson
Planes! (1913) / Frederick Britten Austin
Danger! Being the log of Captain John Sirius (1914) / Arthur Conan Doyle
Frankreichs Ende im Jahr 19?? (1945) / Adolf Sommerfeld.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [364]-376).
Collection of stories originally published 1871-1945.

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Syracuse, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809/.93358
Library of Congress
PN56.W3 T35 1995, PN56.W3T35 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 382 p. :
Number of pages
382

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Open Library
OL803818M
Internet Archive
taleofnextgreatw0000unse
ISBN 10
081562672X, 0815603584
LCCN
95040302
OCLC/WorldCat
33104130
Library Thing
299178
Goodreads
169262
4864906

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