Ochre binding with military figures and title on the front board.

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At times service life may be “nothing to write home about,” but the language of the mess and words and expressions commonly used by soldiers, sailors, and airman in war and peace have become firmly rooted in our everyday conversations

“Drawing on the language of the fighting man throughout the ages, this A-Z collection of popular idioms and turns of phrase delves into the origin and evolution of expressions now used in common language which came into being on the battlefield, the gun-deck, and more recently, in the air. So to find out what it means to ‘swear like a trooper’, when something’s ‘gone for a Burton’, browse through this fascinating collection and discover the history of hundreds of similar words and phrases.”