The Conquest of America

As James Langson sits down to discuss war tactics with Rear-Admiral Thomas Q. Allyn of the U.S. Navy, the Gatun Locks of the Panama Canal are destroyed by dynamite. New York too is in a state of indescribable confusion and alarm. Panic is in the streets. War has been declared by Germany against the United States. Published in 1916, Cleveland Moffett's Conquest of America is billed as a "Romance of Disaster and Victory, U.S.A., 1921 A.D. " The novel is an excellent example of the invasion genre of fiction popular in the early 1900s, with this account based on extracts from the diary of James E. Langston, War Correspondent of the London Times.