Sights and sounds of the final hours of World War I

Re:Sights and sounds of the final hours of World War I by agurk on Thursday November 08, 2018 @08:40AM (#18406128)

That's interesting, as in the UK I've always heard the term Great War for the First World War. Sometime the Second was known as The Last War, which always confused me as a child as I knew there had been wars since.

It's a shame that war memorials site doesn't have a copy of the inscription on the memorials - it would be interesting to do a frequency analysis of the terms used.

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Re:Sights and sounds of the final hours of World War I by arethuza on Thursday November 08, 2018 @10:36AM (#18406963)

I guess there have always been "Great Wars" in history - I remember reading that the Battle of Brunanburh in 937 was called that for generations after (probably in Michael Wood's superb book In Search of England: Journeys Into the English Past). Now we don't even know where Brunanburh took place!

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Re:Sights and sounds of the final hours of World War I by AnimalMuppet on Thursday November 08, 2018 @09:14AM (#18406340)

World War II was the last war of that scale, though. May that always continue to be true.

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