Waubonsee Community College

War slang, American fighting words and phrases since the Civil War, Paul Dickson

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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War slang

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Paul Dickson

American fighting words and phrases since the Civil War

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