American fighting words and phrases since the Civil War /
Paul Dickson
2nd ed
Washington, D.C. :
Brassey's,
c2004
xi, 428 p. ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Fire Cakes -- 1. Civil and Uncivil Words: War Slang Before the Great War: From the War Between the States Through the War with Spain -- 2. World War I: Over there and Over the Top: Terms That Came Up from the Trenches, and Down from the Dogfight -- 3. The Many Words of World War II: G.I.'s, Jeeps, Kilroy, and V-Signs from Two Theaters of War -- 4. The Code of the Korean Conflict: A Few Words from World War 2 1/2 -- 5. Vietnam Vocab: Out of the Jungles of Southeast Asia -- 6. A Gulf Glossary: Grains of "Sandspeak" from the War That Was on Every Channel -- 7. Doomsday's Dictionary: Verbal Fallout from Nukes, the Cold War (1946-1991), and the Puzzle Palace -- 8. Terms for a Time of Terror: New Words for the Post-9/11 World and the Iraq War
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Americanisms, Dictionaries
English language-- United States-- Slang, Dictionaries
Military art and science-- United States, Dictionaries