Published in 1916, The Conquest of America details an invasion of the USA by Germany.
goes down to partial defeat.
her mastery of the sea), and despite the sinkings of the Lusitania and the Arabic. In the summer, Germany is
flung back to the Rhineby the Allies, which include the UK's
five million fully-equipped men.
buys off Europe,… cripples England, and… isolates America. Russia and France gain Constantinople and Alsace-Lorraine, respectively. Belgium becomes a German province after a referendum passes with 65 % in favor of annexation. Germany and the UK have turned socialist,
using the full power of state to lessen their present iniquitous extremes of poverty and wealth, which weaken patriotism, and… compelling a division of the products of toil that is really fair. (It's mentioned that Japan rules China by 1921, though when such rule was established is left to the reader's imagination.)
predreadnoughtsis in Philadelphia, but there are no men available to crew the ships.)
all of New England, about one-third of New York and Pennsylvania (the southeastern portions), all of New Jersey and Delaware, nearly all of Virginia and North Carolina, and all of South Carolina and Georgia—an expanse of territory
about the area of the German Empire(
roughly speaking, a thousand miles long and two hundred miles wide) and to be called New Germany. After two weeks of negotiations, Germany has reduced its demand to New England, New York City, and Long Island, and the US (with its final offer of 7 billion $, or 160 billion in 2016 dollars, having been rejected) is about to capitulate.
(A brief timeline and an accompanying map, based on the preceding events, clarifying some history that the book glossed over, and extending through the following ten years, were commissioned from RvBOMally.)
super-Zeppelin, with apparatus for steering small submarines by radio control, designed by Nikola Tesla and John Hammond Jr.—is destroyed in an attack on the German super-dreadnought flagship Bismarck in New York City. Tesla, who volunteered to captain the craft on its first mission, is killed.
mountaineers. This setback, coming on the heels of the Boston revolt, inflicts serious damage on German prestige.
Widding-Edison torpedo—
a sure way to make an ordinary Whitehead torpedo hit a battleship.
smarting under the inconclusive results of the Great War, attack
the Central Empires.
Germany… abandoned her invasion of America, not because of the USA's air victory, but because she found herself involved in another European war.
A few weeks later: General Wood makes an inspiring speech before a joint committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Congress
almost unanimously (even Senators William Bryan and Henry Ford refuse to vote against preparedness)votes for
a strong and fully manned navy with 48 dreadnoughts and battle cruisers in proportion,
scout destroyers and sea-going submarines in numbers sufficient to balance the capital fleet,
an aerial fleet second to none in the world,
a standing army of 200 000 men with 45 000 officers, backed by a national force of citizens trained in arms under a universal and obligatory one-year military system, and
adequate munition plants in various parts of the country, all under government control and partly subsidized under conditions assuring ample munitions at any time, but absolutely preventing private monopolies or excessive profits in the munition manufacturing business.