When William Came

Saki

Sprache: English

Genres: Allgemeine Belletristik Kriegs- & Militärliteratur

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1. The Singing-Bird and the Barometer
2. The Homecoming
3. The Metski Tsar
4. ‘Es Ist Verboten’
5. ‘L’Art D’etre Cousine’
6. Herr Von Kwaal
7. The Lure
8. The First Night
9. An Evening ‘To Be Remembered’
10. Some Reflections and a ‘Te Deum’
11. The Teashop
12. The Travelling Companions
13. Torywood
14. ‘A Perfectly Glorious Afternoon’
15. The Intelligent Anticipator of Wants
16. Sunrise
17. The Event of the Season
18. The Dead Who Do Not Understand
19. When William Came

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We have had many novels about alternate histories, often of the 'What would have happened if Hitler had won the war' type and this is another - except that this one is set in 1913 and the 'William' of the title is that old bogeyman 'Kaiser Bill'. For some reason, at the height of Britain's power, the fear of invasion was common at that time. (See The Riddle of the Sands, The Battle of Dorking, Spies of the Kaiser or even The War of the Worlds)

WARNING: Contains mild anti-semitism and jingoism typical of the period. (Summary by Andy Minter)