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Book Synopsis Lingo of No Man's Land by : Lorenzo N. Smith
Download or read book Lingo of No Man's Land written by Lorenzo N. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1915 Massachusetts native Lorenzo N. Smith, roused by the newspaper reports of desecrated Belgium and France, crossed the Canadian border and joined the Wesmount Rifles. After stints with the First Canadian Contingent at Ypres, Festubert, Givenchy, Ploegsteert, and Messines, where he was, according to the original foreword, struck by a piece of shrapnel and removed from combat, Sgt. Smith joined the British-Canadian Recruiting Mission. Smith’s recruiting addresses were frequently followed by questions from the floor—“What d’ye mean by Blighty?’” and “What’s a ‘Whizbang?’”—and as a result, he compiled the Lingo of No Man’s Land, his dictionary of World War I slang. Originally published in 1918, Lingo of No Man’s Land provides fascinating contemporary insights into the soldier’s experience of the Great War. Among the terms and phrases defined within are “Cage–A wire enclosed structure to hold Fritz”; “Coote–A species of lice with extraordinary biting ability”; “Poultice wallopers–Hospital orderlies”; and “Rat poison–Affectionate term for cheese. The trench rats which swarm about are fed on cheese.” What is perhaps surprising for the modern reader is the number of words and phrases that Smith felt the need to define but are now considered commonplace—aerial photography, armored car, bomb, camouflage, concussion, and crater—a testament to how much English comes from World War I. Published again to coincide with the centennial of World War I, Lingo of No Man’s Land offers a unique perspective of life on the front lines and will be compulsory reading for all American and European history buffs.
Book Synopsis Lingo of No Man's Land; Or, War Time Lexicon by :
Download or read book Lingo of No Man's Land; Or, War Time Lexicon written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Man's Land written by Sara Driscoll and published by Kensington Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Agent Meg Jennings and her search-and-rescue dog are on the trail of a killer hiding where others fear to tread . . . For Meg Jennings and her K-9 companion, Hawk, exploring the ruins of a deserted building is an exciting way to sharpen their skills without the life-or-death stakes they face as part of the FBI’s Human Scent Evidence Team. But deep in the echoing rooms of an abandoned asylum, Hawk finds the body of an elderly woman. The victim couldn’t have made her way into the derelict building on her own. Before forty-eight hours pass, Meg learns of three more cases of elders found dead in neglected urban structures. There’s not enough evidence to link the deaths—yet. But Meg scents a pattern, and when she gets word of another senior gone missing, she and Hawk don’t hesitate. Meg is sure a murderer is hunting the eldery, and she can prove it if she can just find a connection. It will take the expert coordination of her whole team, along with help from Clay McCord and Todd Webb, to uncover the means, let alone a motive. And to stop someone who has operated in the dark for so long, Meg will need to risk more than she has to give . . .
Book Synopsis Rose of No Man's Land by : Michelle Tea
Download or read book Rose of No Man's Land written by Michelle Tea and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a self-described loner whose family expects nothing from her. While her mother lies on the couch in a hypochondriac haze and her sister aspires to be on The Real World, Trisha struggles to find her own place among the neon signs, theme restaurants, and cookie-cutter chain stores of her hometown. After being hired and abruptly fired from the most popular shop at the absurd and kaleidoscopic Square One Mall, Trisha finds herself linked up with a chain-smoking, physically stunted mall rat named Rose, and her life shifts into manic overdrive. A whirlwind exploration of drugs, sex, poverty and tattoos, Rose of No Man’s Land is the world according to Trisha – a furious love story between two weirdo girls, brimming with snarky observations and soulful wonderings on the dazzle-flash emptiness of contemporary culture.
Book Synopsis Singing the Coast by : Margaret Somerville
Download or read book Singing the Coast written by Margaret Somerville and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singing the Coast offers readers a rare opportunity to visit the heart of Gumbaynggirr culture and trace the shaping of place and identity in coastal Australia.
Book Synopsis No Man's Land: The war of the words by : Sandra M. Gilbert
Download or read book No Man's Land: The war of the words written by Sandra M. Gilbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.1 the war of the words. V.2 sexchanges.
Book Synopsis Words and the First World War by : Julian Walker
Download or read book Words and the First World War written by Julian Walker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An illustrated analytical study, Words and the First World War considers the situation at home, at war, and under categories such as race, gender and class to give a many-sided picture of language used during the conflict." The Spectator First World War expert Julian Walker looks at how the conflict shaped English and its relationship with other languages. He considers language in relation to mediation and authenticity, as well as the limitations and potential of different kinds of verbal communication. Walker also examines: - How language changed, and why changed language was used in communications - Language used at the Front and how the 'language of the war' was commercially exploited on the Home Front - The relationship between language, soldiers and class - The idea of the 'indescribability' of the war and the linguistic codes used to convey the experience 'Languages of the front' became linguistic souvenirs of the war, abandoned by soldiers but taken up by academics, memoir writers and commentators, leaving an indelible mark on the words we use even today.
Book Synopsis Introduction to the Science of Sociology by : Robert Ezra Park
Download or read book Introduction to the Science of Sociology written by Robert Ezra Park and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Business Man's Dictionary and Guide to English written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Man's Land written by Reginald Hill and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “particularly compelling” novel of brotherhood and brutality among a band of World War I deserters (Publishers Weekly). A small group of soldiers, led by an Australian named Viney, has fled the trenches of the Western front. Now they scavenge to survive in the desolate area known as no man’s land. One of them, Josh, is shaken by the brutality he has witnessed. Another, Lothar, was a German aristocrat who had no desire to die as a supposed hero. There are tensions among the group, but they are united in their disdain for the war that rages around them—and Lothar and Josh share another bond, as each has been traumatized by the loss of a brother during the fighting. But as the runaway soldiers hide in the wilds of eastern France, their iron-fisted leader is being targeted by a Military Police captain with a personal vendetta—and they may find that no matter where they run, they cannot escape danger, in this novel of the First World War that offers “a different kind of story” (The New York Times). “[An] imaginative war story . . . It is Hill’s compassionate portrayal of the intricacies of sibling (and romantic) bonding and bereavement that render this novel particularly compelling.” —Publishers Weekly “Vivid background detail, an intricate but believable plot, and solid development of innumerable major and minor characters.” —Library Journal
Book Synopsis Writing a War of Words by : Lynda Mugglestone
Download or read book Writing a War of Words written by Lynda Mugglestone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark's unique series of lexical scrapbooks, replete with clippings, annotations, and real-time definitions, reveals a desire to put living language history to the fore, and to create a record of often fleeting popular use. The rise of trench warfare, the Zeppelinophobia of total war, and descriptions of shellshock (and raid shock on the Home Front) all drew his attentive gaze. The archive includes examples from a range of sources, such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front, as well as documenting social issues such as the shifting forms of representation as women 'did their bit' on the Home Front. Lynda's Mugglestone's fascinating investigation of this valuable archive reassesses the conventional accounts of language history during this period, recuperates Clark himself as another 'forgotten lexicographer', challenges the received wisdom on the inexpressibilities of war, and examines the role of language as an interdisciplinary lens on history.
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Book Synopsis The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary by : William Dwight Whitney
Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Century Dictionary by : William Dwight Whitney
Download or read book The Century Dictionary written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On the Road to Victory by : Michael Harrison
Download or read book On the Road to Victory written by Michael Harrison and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a revolution in moving troops and supplies: “A rare gem that will fill a gap in your World War I library. Highly recommended.” —Indy Squadron Dispatch The Great War produced many innovations, in particular the spectacular development by the British and French armies of motor transport. The age-old problem of moving soldiers and their supplies was no different in 1914 than it had been some 2,400 years ago, when the great Chinese military thinker Sun Tzu informed his readers that the further an army marched into enemy territory, the more the cost of transport increased, even to the point that more supplies were consumed by the transportation of men and their horses than was delivered to the troops. Using many previously unpublished illustrations, including artists’ impressions, this book tells the story of the men and women who made motor transport work for the victorious British Army on the Western Front, so that in 1918, the humble lorry did indeed help propel the British Army forward on the road to victory.
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Download or read book The Century Dictionary: The Century dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney by : William Dwight Whitney
Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
