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The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England

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Author(s):P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):C. Harrison
Publisher(s): Alston Rivers
Year Published: 1909
Type: Softcover
Genre: Boy Scouts
Boys Growing Up
British
Fiction - Novel
Age Range: Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books
Pages: 122
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 2800950

Description

While everyone is on August holiday, England’s enemies take the opportunity to invade her. Only Clarence and his Boy Scout troop stand in their way. Wodehouse later adapted this short novel to America as The Military Invasion of America, A Remarkable Tale of the German-Japanese Invasion of 1915. Read online at Gutenberg.org.

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Other Editions

The Swoop! and Other Stories (1979)

While everyone is on August holiday England’s enemies take the opportunity to invade her. Only Clarence and his boy scout troop stand in their way. Wodehouse later adapted this short novel to America as The Military Invasion of America, A Remarkable Tale of the German-Japanese Invasion of 1915.

Read online at archive.org. 

Publisher: Seabury Press
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The Military Invasion of America, A Remarkable Tale of the German-Japanese Invasion of 1915 (2014)

While everyone is on August holiday, England’s enemies take the opportunity to invade her. Only Clarence and his boy scout troop stand in their way.

Wodehouse later adapted this short novel to America as The Military Invasion of America, A Remarkable Tale of the German-Japanese Invasion of 1915 published in Vanity Fair in 1915.

Publisher: The Overlook Press
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The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England: &, The Military Invasion of America (2014)

While everyone is on August holiday England’s enemies take the opportunity to invade her. Only Clarence and his boy scout troop stand in their way. Wodehouse later adapted this short novel to America as The Military Invasion of America, A Remarkable Tale of the German-Japanese Invasion of 1915.

Publisher: The Overlook Press
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The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England (2014)

While every one is on August holiday England’s enemies take the opportunity to invade her. Only Clarence and his boy scout troop stand in their way. Wodehouse later adapted this short novel to America as The Military Invasion of America, A Remarkable Tale of the German-Japanese Invasion of 1915.

Publisher: Alston Rivers
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