Ah, invasion literature. Proving that Marty Stues
The British lose the Battle of Dorking, to an extent that would make the most virulent Anglophobe drool:
How we lived through the degradation we daily and hourly underwent, I hardly even now understand. And what was there left to us to live for? Stripped of our colonies; Canada and the West Indies gone to America; Australia forced to separate; India lost for ever, after the English there had all been destroyed, vainly trying to hold the country when cut off from aid by their countrymen; Gibraltar and Malta ceded to the new naval Power; Ireland independent and in perpetual anarchy and revolution.
where people take one legions of Germans
The Battle of Dorking was not fought against either Prussia or Austria (see some discussion
here). In fact, there are probably as many stories with Germany as an ally than as an opponent; see
this and
this, for instance. Old habits died hard:
The New Battle of Dorking was written as late as 1910 but was against the French.
have a long and hallowed place in Anglo-American literature.
By no means limited to the English-speaking world. Examples abound:
Plus d'Angleterre (1887),
La Guerre Anglo-Franco-Russe (1900),
Der Weltkrieg deutsche Traume (1904).
It didn't actively change anything on its own, invasion literature was already prominent.
I've not come across any pre-Dorking invasion literature, but I'd be interested to see what it's like. Could you recommend some?