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Referenced as 'Gary Sheffield's biography of General Haig' which Tom mentioned recommending to Michael Gove on Start the Week, contributing to the revisionist historiography of WWI

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Referenced as a 'brilliant book' when discussing the vast amount of literature written about the causes of WWI, noting that even Clark who 'seems to have read everything on the subject' acknowledges it's impossible for one person to read all that has been written

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Described as an invasion scare story commissioned by the Daily Mail, featuring Germans invading Britain through towns with high Daily Mail circulation; noted that it sold a million copies

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Mentioned as an example of the invasion literature genre alongside Le Queux's work, representing fears of foreign invasion of Britain

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Explicitly called 'Saki's novel' about Germans launching a naval attack, winning, and occupying Britain, used to illustrate British fears about naval vulnerability

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Described as 'the classic book about German spies and about the Germans plotting to invade Britain'; noted that the author later smuggled guns for the IRA and was executed

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Called 'one of the great novels about the First World War' despite being written in the late 19th century; discussed how Wells compared the Martian destruction of London to British treatment of Tasmanians

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Referenced as a series of novels about the Napoleonic Wars featuring ships at war, often taking place on the far side of the world, used to illustrate that global wars predated WWI