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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...
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    Jackson, AA (1988). Dorking's Railways. Dorking: Dorking Local History Group. ISBN 1-870912-01-2. Jackson, Alan A, ed. (1989). Around Dorking in old photographs...
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    in the UK, with the novella The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer (1871), an account of a German invasion of England, which, in the Western...
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    published. The original work was The Battle of Dorking (1871) by George Tomkyns Chesney, which portrays a surprise German attack and landing on the south coast...
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  • which began with The Battle of Dorking in 1871, where the British are soundly defeated by an invading German army. The Battle of Dorking was written by...
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  • Daphne du Maurier - an invasion by the United States The Long White Winter by Sebastian Faulks The Battle of Dorking by George Tomkyns Chesney Fatherland...
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  • centred on the town of Dorking, Surrey Dorking railway station, one of three stations that serve the town of Dorking in Surrey, England Dorking, Ontario...
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    prompted by the success of "The Great War of 1892" in Black and White magazine, which was itself inspired by The Battle of Dorking. A lurid mix of Jules Verne's...
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    George Tomkyns Chesney (category Companions of the Order of the Star of India)
    politician, and writer of fiction. He is remembered as the author of the novella The Battle of Dorking (1871), a founding work in the genre of invasion literature...
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  • 1871 in literature (category Years of the 19th century in literature)
    Scotland. 21 (5): 29–31. Clarke, I. F. (1997). "Before and After The Battle of Dorking". Science Fiction Studies. 24: 33–46. Van Niekerk, H. L. Eugène...
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