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Trench Talk, Trench Life (Hardcover)
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Trench Talk, Trench Life (Hardcover)
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List price R625
Loot Price R579
Discovery Miles 5 790
You Save R46 (7%)
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Festooned with more than 200 original black-and-white illustrations
by author, designer and artist Fredric Winkowski, this concise,
handsomely illustrated, boots-on-the-ground guide provides a unique
introduction to life on the Western Front during World War I.
Readers will learn about the drastic living circumstances of the
widely known archetypal foot soldiers of, respectively, Britain,
France and the United States: Tommy Atkins, Poilu, and Doughboy. We
all know something of how these men existed in muddy trenches,
subject to shelling, snipers and waiting for the next Big Push; but
it is through the unique vocabulary of those troops, with their
newly-coined words, slang, and euphemisms that we can most easily
enter their world. Readers will learn the meaning behind the long
lost wartime language of these soldiers, with such words and
phrases as: Black Hand Gang, Ace, Crummy, Barker, Dud, Come-alongs,
Hush-hush, and Over the top.
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