The Camp of the Saints, Volume 10This thought-provoking book anticipates a situation which seems plausible today: it describes the peaceful invasion of France, and then of the West, by a third world burgeoned into multitudes. At all levels - global consciousness, governments, societies, and especially every person within themself - the question is asked belatedly: what's to be done? |
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