_Naval and Military Record_ says: "Mr. Le Queux has special qualifications for the task. He knows a great deal of our Army and Navy, and he is familiar with continental systems and sentiment. The narrative is lively and spirited, and the author writes with an air of conviction which is calculated to carry the reader on from beginning to end." _Admiralty and Horse Guards Gazette_ says: "Mr. Le Queux is a vivid writer, and his work gives evidence of care and thoroughness. The chapter dealing with the march of the French on London is particularly fine. The author's production is the best of the kind we have come across for some time. It should emphasise our old contention as to the unreadiness for active service on a prolonged campaign of the sea and land forces of the Empire." _Army and Navy Gazette_ says: "The story is a capital one, full of interest and incident, well sustained and well told." _The Idler_ says: "Mr. Le Queux writes brilliantly, sensibly, and with a thorough mastery of his subject." _The Sketch_ says: "No novel of the day comes up to Mr. Le Queux' 'Great War in England in 1897' for excitement. From the preface to the last paragraph he has kept up his prophetic heroics in magnificent style, and if his patriotism does not scatter our indifference to our insular defences, why, then, nothing will. It is really a terrifying book. Mr. Le Queux has power to shake one's nerves as he foretells fights and slaughters in peaceful suburbs." _The World_ says: "It serves to bring home in a very realistic fashion the horrors of a war brought into our very midst." _To-Day_ says: "A mastery of military and naval details is displayed with conception and execution." _The Review of Reviews_ says: "The story is useful as a warning, and is worked out with much knowledge." _The Gentlewoman_ says: "Once having started, I couldn't lay it down till I had made an end thereto." _The Literary World_ says: "It is undoubtedly one of the books of the year. It is so ingenious and so exciting, it is at once extremely technical and extremely readable. The book is a great book, and one that no Englishman could read without a thrill." _The Publishers' Circular_ says: "Mr. Le Queux shows us what will happen if we do not better prepare ourselves." * * * * * Read what the Country Press say. _Manchester Evening News_ says: "Lovers of exciting literature will be satisfied to the full with the graphic story." _Liverpool Daily Mercury_ says: "Extremely interesting, and well worth reading." _Liverpool Daily Chronicle_ says:--"The story is full of stirring episode." _Birmingham Daily Post_ says: "The scenes are marked with real and affecting power."