William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim became the most widely read and most successful British writers of spy fiction, especially of invasion literature.

The narrative tone of television espionage ranged from the drama of Danger Man ( 1960 – 68 ) to the sardonicism of The Man from U. N. C. L. E ( 1964 – 68 ) and the flippancy of I Spy ( 1965 – 68 ) until the exaggeration, akin to that of William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim before the First World War ( 1914 – 18 ), degenerated to the parody of Get Smart ( 1965 – 70 ).

The Battle of Royston was a fictive battle in William Le Queux ' The Invasion of 1910.

William Tufnell Le Queux ( 2 July 1864-13 October 1927 ) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer.

Le Queux was born in London.

Le Queux mainly wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage, particularly in the years leading up to World War I, when his partnership with British publishing magnate Lord Northcliffe led to the serialised publication and intensive publicising ( including actors dressed as German soldiers walking along Regent Street ) of pulp-fiction spy stories and invasion literature such as The Invasion of 1910, The Poisoned Bullet, and Spies of the Kaiser.

The newspaper's circulation increased greatly, and it made a small fortune for Le Queux, eventually being translated into twenty-seven languages and selling over one million copies in book form.

At the beginning of World War I Le Queux became convinced that the Germans were out to get him for " rumbling their schemes " and from then on became involved in a continual struggle with his local police force and the Metropolitan Police over his request for special protection from German agents.

Le Queux was interested in radio communication ; he was a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers and carried out some radio experiments in 1924 in Switzerland with Dr. Petit Pierre and Max Amstutz.

Le Queux was eager to help Baird with his television experiments but said that all his money was tied up in Switzerland.

Apart from fiction, Le Queux also wrote extensively on wireless broadcasting, produced various travel works including An Observer in the Near East and several short books on Switzerland, and wrote an unrevealing and often misleading autobiography, Things I Know about Kings, Celebrities and Crooks ( 1923 ).

The latter contains, among other fantastic stories, the claim by Le Queux that he saw a manuscript in French written by Rasputin stating that Jack the Ripper was a Russian doctor named Alexander Pedachenko who committed the murders to confuse and ridicule Scotland Yard.

Le Queux wrote 150 novels dealing with international intrigue, as well as books warning of Britain's vulnerability to European invasion before World War I:

* Patrick, Chris & Baister, Stephen, William Le Queux Master of Mystery, 2007.

* Works by William Le Queux at Internet Archive.

* William Le Queux, Master of Mystery, biography published 2007

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In 1894 Alfred Harmsworth had commissioned author William Le Queux to write the serial novel The Great War in England in 1897, which featured Germany, France and Russia combining forces to crush Britain.

Alexander Pedachenko ( alleged dates 1857 – 1908 ) was named in the 1923 memoirs of William Le Queux, Things I Know about Kings, Celebrities and Crooks.

Le Queux claimed to have seen a manuscript in French written by Rasputin stating that Jack the Ripper was an insane Russian doctor named Alexander Pedachenko, an agent of the Okhrana ( the Secret Police of Imperial Russia ), whose aim in committing the murders was to discredit Scotland Yard.

However, there is no hard evidence that Pedachenko ever existed, and many parts of the story as recounted by Le Queux fall apart when examined closely.

In 1903, William Le Queux wrote The Tickencote Treasure.

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A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

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The most important was the study of the Peasants of Languedoc by Braudel's star pupil and successor Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.

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Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

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