The Swoop!: How Clarence Saved England (A Tale Of The Great Invasion)

The swoop! or How Clarence Saved England - A Tale of the Great Invasion by P. G. Wodehouse - The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies - "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room."- and features references to many well-known figures of the day, among them the politician Herbert Gladstone, novelist Edgar Wallace, actor-managers Seymour Hicks and George Edwardes, and boxer Bob Fitzsimmons. The invaders are the Russians under Grand Duke Vodkakoff, the Germans under Prince Otto of Saxe-Pfennig - the reigning British monarch of the day was Edward VII of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - the Swiss Navy, the Monegasques, a band of Moroccan brigands under Raisuli, the Young Turks, the Mad Mullah from Somalialand, the Chinese under Prince Ping Pong Pang, and the Bollygollans in war canoes.

• • Author: P. G. Wodehouse
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Jul 02, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 52 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1535058609
• • ISBN-13: 9781535058605