Download or read book The Battle of Dorking (by Jingo Publications) written by George Chesney and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-06 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Dorking: Reminiscences of a Volunteer is George Chesney's classic 1871 account of a fictional invasion of England.Written in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian war, Chesney's stirring tale of an Englishman swept up in the defence of his country served as a protest at what the author saw as the decline of the British army in the face of growing threats from abroad.Influential on later writers such as HG Wells for its coining of the popular 'invasion literature' genre, this ever popular classic is now available with a new introduction to the text for the modern reader.