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FUBAR by Gordon Rottman: NEW 2007 First Edition Hardback
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Author: Gordon L Rottman
Publisher: 2007, Osprey
Pagination: 296
Format: Hardback
Condition: Old new stock, expect an item that may have been in stock for some time which is undamaged, with minimal wear and minimal fading to the cover, see pictures.
Fully returnable if unhappy with the condition.
1st edition.
Humorous, sarcastic, sober, pessimistic, fatalistic, defiant or defeatist, slang is an important part of every soldier's vocabulary. Much of the slang of World War II was handed down from World War I and earlier conflicts. These words were so ingrained into the soldier's vocabulary that their use was continued by a new generation of soldiers and by the end of the war some terms had even passed into standard everyday usage.
This book is a detailed survey of the slang of WWII as used and evolved by US, German and Commonwealth fighting men and women. It lists hundreds of these distictive and evocative words with their definitions and origins, but and also includes contemporary cartoons and images, transporting the reader back through the decades into the world of the WWII warrior.
