When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns is a novel written by the British author Saki (the pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and published in November 1913.[2] It is set several years in what was then the future, after a war between Germany and Great Britain in which the former won.[3]
Much of the book is an argument for compulsory military service,[7] about which there was then a major controversy. The scene in which an Imperial Rescript is announced in a subjugated London, excusing the unmilitary British from serving in the Kaiser's armies, is particularly bitter. There are also several vignettes exemplifying the differences between the English and continental systems of law – Yeovil's wife informs him that she must register his presence with the police and later he is fined on the spot for walking on the grass in Hyde Park. In another episode, he finds himself unintentionally but unavoidably fraternising with one of the invaders.[8]
^When William Came; a story of. OCLC. OCLC 841713896. Retrieved 3 November 2014 – via OCLC Worldcat.
^Gibson, Brian (23 June 2014). Reading Saki: The Fiction of H.H. Munro. McFarland. p. 203. ISBN9781476615325.
^Gibson, Brian (31 May 2012). "'The Unrest-Cure' and Saki's Uneasy Anti-Semitism". Jewish Culture and History. 9 (1): 27–50. doi:10.1080/1462169X.2007.10512065. S2CID 162284702.
^Hitchens, Christopher (June 2008). "Where the wild things are: the enduring, untamable appeal of Saki's short stories". The Atlantic. 301 (5): 109.
^Kemp, Peter (3 October 2004). "Masters of Shock and Awe". Sunday Times (London).
^Jones, Nigel (May 2014). Peace and War: Britain In 1914. Head of Zeus. p. 30. ISBN9781781852583.
^Stearn, Tom (2008). "The Case for Conscription". History Today. 58 (4).
^Hitchner, Thomas (2010). "Edwardian Spy Literature and the Ethos of Sportsmanship: the sport of spying". English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920. 53 (4): 413–430. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
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