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[Munch, Paul Georg.]. HINDENBURGS EINMARSCH IN LONDON. Von Einem Deutschen Dichter [pseudonym]. Leipzig: Grethlein & Co. G.m.b.H., [1915]. Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-260 [261-264: ads] [note: first leaf is a blank], original pictorial cream wrappers printed in black, red and blue. First edition. Optimistic fictional narrative of Germany's successful invasion of Britain, the last of the many tales of war between Britain and Germany that had derived from the political situation that lead up to World War I. "... here one can see how the entire literature of imaginary warfare is in the last analysis a myth-world created out of animosities and anxieties, and the whole projected into a fantasy of the future where only the worst or the best can come to pass. Hence, the last of the old-style German forecasts closed with Hindenburg's address to his victorious troops in London. He told them to go back to Germany and tell their children of the great events they had seen, so that in the years to come their grandsons could say that 'a grandfather of mine camped in front of Buckingham Palace after he had helped clear the world of our enemies.'" - Clarke, Voices (1992), pp. 129-30. Translated into English as HINDENBURG'S MARCH INTO LONDON (1916). Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1578. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 45. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War (1992), pp. 129-30; 236. Lexikon 1, pp. 197-8. Bloch (2002) 2215. Covers rubbed, dusty and age-darkened, preliminary leaves foxed, a very good copy. These paperbound copies of the first printing are very hard to find. (#133950).

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