Are we in a world war yet?

In &ldquo; The War That Could Swallow the World &rdquo;, David French writes: &ldquo;I’ve often wondered what it was like to be alive in the summer of 1914, much less in 1938 and 1939. When did people start to realize that the world was on the brink of catastrophe? Speak up too soon or too frequently, and you look ridiculous — like the Chicken Little of World War. Speak up too late, and you live…