The Battle of Dorking; Or, Reminiscences of a Volunteer

Literature & Fiction

GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON

Chesney, George

Schuchardt, Christian

Contemporary

Nabu Press

Battle of Dorking

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The Battle of Dorking

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Kessinger Publishing

Sir George Tomkyns Chesney (1830-1895) was British Army general and brother of Colonel Charles Cornwallis Chesney. Educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and at Addiscombe, he entered the Bengal Engineers as second lieutenant in 1848. He was employed for some years in the public works department and, on the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857, joined the Ambala column, was field engineer at the battle of Badli-ke-serai, brigade-major of engineers throughout the siege of Delhi, and was severely wounded in the assault (he received a medal and clasp and a brevet majority). In 1860, he was appointed head of a new department in connection with the public works accounts. His book Indian Polity (1868), dealing with the administration of the several departments of the Indian government, attracted wide attention and remains a permanent textbook. In 1871, he contributed to Blackwoods Magazine a highly influential short story called The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer, a vivid account of a supposed invasion of England by the Germans after their victory over France.

The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer (Dodo Press)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Dodo Press

<p>The notorious account of future war that so stunned 1870s Britain.</p>

The Battle Of Dorking

A stunningly vibrant and widely-read military novel deals with the incursion of England by Germans after their conquest over France. The novel is considered a initiation of invasion literature genre. Chesney has remarkably illustrated the horrors of foreign threat of war and the consequent devastation. Thought-provoking!

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<p>You ask me to tell you, my grandchildren, something about my own share in the great events that happened fifty years ago. 'Tis sad work turning back to that bitter page in our history, but you may perhaps take profit in your new homes from the lesson it teaches. For us in England it came too late. And yet we had plenty of warnings, if we had only made use of them. The danger did not come on us unawares. It burst on us suddenly, 'tis true; but its coming was foreshadowed plainly enough to open our eyes, if we had not been willfully blind. We English have only ourselves to blame for the humiliation which has been brought on the land. Venerable old age! Dishonorable old age, I say, when it follows a manhood dishonored as ours has been. I declare, even now, though fifty years have passed, I can hardly look a young man in the face when I think I am one of those in whose youth happened this degradation of Old England---one of those who betrayed the trust handed down to us unstained by our forefathers.</p>

The Battle of Dorking (1871): Reminiscences of a Volunteer

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