Danger!: Being the Log of Captain John Sirius

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"Danger!: Being the Log of Captain John Sirius"
Short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
"Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius" in Collier's 01.jpg
The cover page of the August 1914 edition of Collier's , illustrated by Henry Reuterdahl.
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Publication
Published in The Strand Magazine
Publication typePrint, magazine
Publication date July 1914

"Danger!: Being the Log of Captain John Sirius" is a story by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in The Strand Magazine in July 1914. The story was collected in Danger! and Other Stories in 1918. [1]

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Plot summary

The story deals with a fictitious European country, Norland, going to war with Great Britain, and was intended to call attention to the threat of submarines in warfare.

The story has the submarines establish a blockade of British ports in order to cut off the nation's supplies, and culminates in the torpedoing of a large passenger liner.

References

  1. ↑ Watts, Jarica (2017). "Submerged by Fear: The Politics of Wartime Hysteria in Conrad and Conan Doyle". Conradiana . 49 (1): 17–41. ISSN   1935-0252 – via Project MUSE.
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