When William Came

When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns is a novel written by British author Saki (the pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and published in 1913. It was set several years in what was then the future, after a war between Germany and Great Britain, which Germany won. The "William" of the title is Kaiser Wilhelm II, who came from the House of Hohenzollern, hence the subtitle. The book chronicles life in London under German occupation, and the changes that come with a foreign army's invasion and triumph. Like Robert Erskine Childers's 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands, it predicts World War I (in which Saki would later be killed) and is an example of invasion literature, a literary genre which flourished at the beginning of the 20th century as tensions between European nations increased.

Anthologies

It has been collected in:

• England Invaded (1977)

It has been reprinted with

• The Battle of Dorking. Oxford University Press. 1997. ISBN 0-19-283285-9. 

See also

• Curious Notions

External links

• The full text of When William Came at Project Gutenberg.
• When William Came publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database