William Le Queux

William Le Queux (1864-1927) was a French-English journalist and writer best known for his invasion fantasy novels, particularly *The Great War in England in 1897* (1894) and *The Invasion of 1910* (1906). His sensationalist fiction about German invasions created such public panic in Edwardian Britain that it directly led to the establishment of MI5 and MI6.

London, England Jul 2, 1864 Wikipedia
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