Author: Driant, Émile Augustin Cyprien (1855-1916)
Title: Les exploits d'un sous-marin / par Le Capitaine Danrit
Description: Paris, Ernest Flammarion, n.d. [1902?]. orig. wrappers. 17x11cm, 244,(8) pages. Some cover soil. The second volume of Driant's imaginary war series "la guerre fatale", this one involving submarine warfare.. Worn. Pages browned. Rear cover creased. Fair condition. ¶ Future-war fiction. ["Driant was a French writer, politician, and army officer. He was the first high-ranking casualty of the Battle of Verdun during World War I....In 1888 Driant married the daughter of nationalist General Boulanger....He resigned his commission in 1906, as he was banned from achieving higher rank due to his controversial father-in-law and by his strong nationalist and Catholic sentiments....In 1888 Driant began writing his first guerre imaginaire ('imaginary war') novel, which he was to publish using the pseudonym 'Capitaine Danrit' Driant gave his readers heroic episodes, great victories over the Germans, and in the 1192 pages of his Guerre fatale: France-Angleterre ('The Fatal War: France-England, 1902), the total defeat of the British by the French. Driant possibly wrote more future-war novels than any other writer before 1914. He published so much fiction, and his stories were so long, that half a century later Pierre Versins said in his Encyclopédie de l'utopie et de la science fiction (1972) that the hundred pages of Chesney's Battle of Dorking were much more important and revealing 'than the thousands of white pages soiled day after day by a national hero of France' ..." -wikipedia].

Keywords: French Literature, Submarines, Submarine, Military History, Naval, Fiction, Future-war, ,