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The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being Some Ch
The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being Some Ch
The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being Some Ch
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William Le Queux was a successful author of more than a hundred books, most of them in the genre of 'invasion literature', focusing on spies, intrigue, and new technologies. Written in the middle of The Great War, The Zeppelin Destroyer tells the story of British aviators trying to battle sophisticated German zeppelins making nightly bombing raids in Southern England and Wales. Teddy, Claude, and Claude's fiance, Roseye are bent on developing a new weapon capable of stopping these powerful invaders, but all the while, they must contend with 'The Invisible Hand', a network of German spies and sympathizers in Britain who will stoop to anything to destroy the weapon and steal its secrets.
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Release dateJan 1, 2014
ISBN9781609771935
The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being Some Ch
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William Le Queux

William Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster. Born in London to a French father and English mother, Le Queux studied art in Paris and embarked on a walking tour of Europe before finding work as a reporter for various French newspapers. Towards the end of the 1880s, he returned to London where he edited Gossip and Piccadilly before being hired as a reporter for The Globe in 1891. After several unhappy years, he left journalism to pursue his creative interests. Le Queux made a name for himself as a leading writer of popular fiction with such espionage thrillers as The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and The Invasion of 1910 (1906). In addition to his writing, Le Queux was a notable pioneer of early aviation and radio communication, interests he maintained while publishing around 150 novels over his decades long career.

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    It is 1915 and England is under attack by German Zeppelins who are bombing the country with impunity. Claude Munro,his friend Teddy Ashton and Munroe's girl,Roseye Lethmere are all intrepid flyers. They are engaged upon a series of inventions,designed to halt the Zeppelin air superiority. They finally manage to invent a means of transmitting an electrical impulse that will blast the airships out of the sky. After several abortive attempts by German secret agents to sabotage this invention and to kill Claude,they kidnap Roseye and subject her to various unspecified tortures. So far so good - an exciting and original tale with excellent descriptions of aviation in it's fairly early days. Loses out a little when the German 'Invisible Hand' organization together with the leader,the 'woman with the leopard eyes',which started out so well,is quite simply dropped at the end of the book without further reference. It is nevertheless still a thrilling read.

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