[78-L] ^ Story of the LP

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Cf. "The Great War and Modern Memory" by Paul Fussell -- a great book.

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Steve.

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From: "Ken "Silver Showcase"" <kenreg at tds.net>
> Donna Halper wrote:
> > At 12:19 PM 12/1/2008, you wrote:
> >   
> >> Chris Zwarg wrote:
> >>     
> >>> At 17:39 01.12.2008, you wrote:
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>> er... wouldn't that be the 90th anniversary?
> >>>> M
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>> Not quite - before Sep.1st 1939, there was no reason to call it 
> >>>       
> >> "FIRST" World War; usually English-speaking people referred to the 
> >> 1914-18 war simply as "The Great War".
> >>     
> >
> > Umm, actually most newspapers just called it "The World War," since 
> > there was no way to know there'd ever be another. 
> >   
> 
> Umm, actually every reference I've seen from the pre-WWII era - books, 
> newspapers, magazines, movies - called it The Great War.  Perhaps some 
> might have referred to it as a world war, but the generally accepted 
> term for that conflict was The Great War.
> 
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