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The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being Some Chapters of Secret History, Classics To Go

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 Munro'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.

William Le Queux

William Tufnell Le Queux (2 July 1864 – 13 October 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat (honorary consul for San Marino), a traveller (in Europe, the Balkans and North Africa), a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter becoming a bestseller.

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