The Shape of Things to Come (1932)

It is 1930. Dr Raven is dead. He has left behind a chronicle of the years 1930-2105, 'a short history of the future'.
A world War rages from 1940-50, exhausting the West and bringing in its wake famine, plague and eco-disaster. In 1968 central London -England- collapses into the Thames. America fragments - the Declaration of Independence is rescinded, but no legitimate heir of George III can be found. Over all the threat of new war still hangs - until the scientific and technical elite gather at the Basra Conference and begin to work out a new World Order.