The Swoop! or, How Clarence Saved England: A Tale of the Great Invasion

Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) · 1975

Produced by Suzanne L. Shell, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team It may be thought by some that in the pages which follow I have painted in too lurid colours the horrors of a foreign invasion of England. Realism in art, it may be argued, can be carried too far. I prefer to think that the majority of my readers will acquit me of a desire to be unduly sensational. It is necessary that England should be roused to a sense of her peril, and only by setting down without flinching the probable results of an invasion can this be done. This story, I may mention, has been written and published purely from a feeling of patriotism and duty. Mr. Alston Rivers' sensitive soul wil…

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