David S Poepoe
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Or how about the German word Blitzkrieg doesn't make it into common English usage. The Lightning War?
If the war was over in less than four years then you MAY have an argument.
Or how about the German word Blitzkrieg doesn't make it into common English usage. The Lightning War?
If the war was over in less than four years then you MAY have an argument.
What if we go the route historians are already going and the two world wars get lumped together? The Great War spans the history from 1914 to 1942 or 46 if you include Japan, otherwise the Japanese-American conflict is just seen as a separate conflict that occurred at the same time as the Great War.
Obviously this becomes an easy solution to historians later on, as they can see WWI as an impetus for the (several?) Balkan Wars that went on, the war over Poland and Russia, the war with France and Britain, Hungary's wars with Romania, etc. as one big overarching conflict of confusion, nationality, and ideology. At which point, they can just lump it all together and call it the Almost-30 Years War or The Second 30 Years War if they don't just go and call the whole thing the Great War.
Remember, this isn't entirely implausible: the 30 Years War was composed of dozens of localized conflicts, none of which lasted the whole 30 years.
Maybe the War of 1939 (sounds like in the west it lasts from 1939-1940)?
Who says wars are always named purely for the countries involved? How about the Hundred Year's War? The Thousand Days War, the Six Days war? The War of Tatters? The War on Terror, even? Set against those, I don't see what's wrong with an alternate name for a short, sharp European war - and the OP was asking for ideas, after all.
No first w/o a second...![]()
My Dad's Encyclopedia Britannica had an article (probably on the war). What I remember was a caption on a photograph of warships at sea "the European War 1939-"!Hi all
I’m currently finishing a novel set in an alternative history (details to follow at another time) and I was wondering if I could canvas some opinion.
In my alternative history there has been a much shorter war in Europe.
Events are the same up to Dunkirk, including the fall of France and Belgium etc. However, at Dunkirk the BEF is destroyed. The Germans invade Britain later in the year but are beaten back. In this stalemate Britain and Germany sue for peace... and that’s the end of the war (at least in Western Europe; the Nazis go on to conquer Russia).
My question is this. Obviously, this can’t be called WWII, so does anyone have any other suggestions for what it might be called?
All ideas welcome!
Thanks in advance
altguy3