Fiction
There have been numerous portrayals of an invasion of Britain in fiction including:
Films
- Went the Day Well? (1942)
- It Happened Here, a 1966 film portraying a Nazi invasion
- Jackboots on Whitehall (2009)
Books
- SS-GB by Len Deighton
- The Swoop! by P. G. Wodehouse
- Asterix in Britain portraying a Roman
- The Long White Winter by Sebastian Faulks
- The Battle of Dorking by George Tomkyns Chesney
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)