Cirrus@Austlit

'Think of enemy troops stealing through the night on Fremantle without a formal declaration of war;

'Think of their ships, under the guard of destroyers, landing soldiers at Cottesloe and Fremantle;

'Think of an enemy raking St. George's Terrace with machine gun fire, charging down Barrack-street at the double with fixed bayonets;

'Think of Western Australian women at the mercy of the invaders;

'THINK OF GREAT AUSTRALIAN CITIES BEING POUNDED TO DESTRUCTION BY BOMBERS AND BATTLE-CRUISERS, INCENDIARY BOMBS AND HIGH EXPLOSIVE SHELLS BRINGING DEATH TO THOUSANDS AS THEY FLEE PANIC-STRICKEN FROM THE DOOMED BUILDINGS.

'Think of all this vividly pictured in one of the most sensational books you have ever read, and you will have just a faint idea of the gripping narrative of "Fools' Harvest," by Erie Cox. In this startlingly dramatic story the author grimly pictures a surprise invasion of Australia, reveals with convincing clarity the horrors of bombardment and occupation, and finally the loss of all the freedom in which Australians exulted, and their reduction to a state of slavery.

'"Fools' Harvest" is a story that is amazingly well told and it will be all the more interesting to readers in this State because chapters deal with the invasion of Western Australia.'

Source: Advertising blurb for the forthcoming serialisation in Perth's The Mirror (The Mirror, 28 January 1939, p.14).