The word at war : world war two in 100 phrases / Philip Gooden and Peter Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gooden, Philip, author.

Lewis, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--History.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--History--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

War words have embedded themselves in our collective psyche; British politicians are fond of invoking the 'Dunkirk spirit' whenever the country is faced with major crisis or even minor adversity, and Roosevelt's famous description of Pearl Harbor as 'a date which will live in infamy' was echoed by many US commentators after the 9/11 attacks. So far, so familiar. Or is it? How many of us know, for instance, that 'Keep Calm and Carry On', far from achieving its morale-boosting aim, was considered at the time to be deeply patronizing by the people it was directed at, and so had only limited d

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Legacy of World War One; Civilian Collateral: Concentration camps; Things to Come: Missile/Atom bomb; Forces' Favourite: 'Lili Marleen'/'Lili Marlene'; Hitler's Whopper: 'Stab in the back'/'the Big Lie'; 2 Appeasement and the Phoney War; Friends of the Führer: Mosleyites; Blackshirts; An Array of Oddballs: Imperial Fascist League/The Link/The English Mistery/The English Array; Nazis Across the Pond: The Bund; Pieces of Paper: Munich Agreement; The Waiting Game: The Phoney War; In Adolf's Bad Books: The Black List; 3 Propaganda

White Power: 'Aryanisation'/'German Ancestral Heritage'The Versatile 'V': 'V' for Victory; Lure of the Crooked Cross: 'swastika'; Lauding the Duce: 'Youth'/'Hip, hip, hooray!'; Workers' Playtime, German Style: 'Strength through Joy'; English Pastoral: 'Went the Day Well?'; Pact of Steel: Axis; The Grandeur That Was Rome: 'Roman-ness'/'Birth of Rome; 4 Wartime Speeches; Finest Hours: Churchill's mobilisation of language; A Pernicious Rumour: The Winston 'impersonator'; Style over Substance: Hitler's demagogic oratory; The Bully Pulpit and the Fireside Chat: FDR's presidential style

5 Service SlangCan We Have Our Pilot Back, Please?: Blood chits/Goolie chits; Odd Bods: Chad and Kilroy; Steam Chickens and Flying Coffins: Aircraft nicknames; Whispering Campaign: Scuttlebutt/Furphy/Elsan gen/Sibs; Swearing Like Troopers: C**t cap/Shit on a shingle/Effing and blinding; 6 National Stereotypes; 'A Horrible Sight': 'Goose-stepping'; Name-Calling: Nazi/Eyetie/Wop/Nip, etc.; Adolf Hitler, Rah, Rah, Rah!: the 'Hitler greeting'; 7 Food and Drink; 'Food Will Win the War': Woolton Pie/snoek/British Restaurants; Boozing for Britain: the 'Berkeley Stinger'

'Don't Mind the Worms': 'Dig for Victory'/Victory gardensLoved and Loathed: Spam®; Cat's Eyes and Carrolade: 'Dr Carrot'; Disgusting Fare: 'A.M.'; 8 Coded Language: Abbreviations, Acronyms, Codewords and Operational Terms; Make it Snappy: Military acronyms; The Semantics of Secrecy: WOTAN/Freya Apparatus; Condemned Out of their Own Mouths: Tongue-twisters; Scourge of the East?: Operation Barbarossa; Clued In: The 'D-Day' crosswords; A Corporal and a Dauber: 'the Bohemian corporal'/'the dauber, the (house) painter'; Short but not so Sweet: Spoof acronyms

The Compliment that Backfired: 'the Greatest Commander of All Time'The Red Tsar: Stalin/Uncle Joe/Vozhd; Winston and the Cross he had to Bear: Winnie/'Two Metres'; 9 Military Hardware; 'A Drink to go with the Food': 'Molotov cocktail'; A Terrible Prophecy: 'Sow the Wind, Reap the Whirlwind'; Foiled Again: Chaff/Window; Eccentric but Effective: Hobart's Funnies; Herr Meier's Empty Boast: 'V-weapons'; 10 Wartime Slogans; The Unholy Trinity: 'Work, family, fatherland'; The Popular Poster That Never Was: 'Keep Calm and Carry On'; Fighting Talk: 'Anyone who surrenders is an executioner!'

Bad Blood: 'Blood and Soil'

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 30, 2014).

ISBN:

9781472922489

1472922484

9781472904911

1472904915