2397: Naming of the First World War Jul 12, 2012

The First World War may have sounded a pessimistic name for those who would not predict a second, but in 1920 there was a book named as such. In fact, while many at the time called it The Great War, this had previously referred to the Napoleonic War, and realizing this nature of forgetting and renaming wars, The First World War, 1914-1918 by Charles à Court Repington was titled for people of future generations.