The Word at War: World War Two in 100 Phrases

Gooden, Philip; Lewis, Peter

ISBN 10: 1472922484 / ISBN 13: 9781472922489

Edité par Bloomsbury Information (edition Reprint), 2015

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Synopsis :

An original take on a familiar subject, this book explains how the language of war, at home and abroad, came to pervade our everyday speech.

À propos des auteurs: PETER LEWIS is Assistant Professor, American University School of International Service.

Philip Gooden read English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then taught at secondary school level for many years. In 2001 he became a full-time writer. Philip writes books on the English language as well as historical crime novels and mysteries. He was chairman of the Crime Writers' Association in 2007-8 and is part of the writing collective, The Medieval Murderers. He has also written the popular Who's Whose?: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily-Confused Words, published by Bloomsbury.

Philip Gooden read English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and then taught at secondary level for many years. In 2001 he became a full-time writer. He is the author of the Nick Revill series, a sequence of historical mysteries based in Elizabethan London and set around Shakespeare's Globe theatre. Titles so far published are Sleep of Death, Death of Kings, The Pale Companion (shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award in 2002), Alms for Oblivion, Mask of Night and An Honourable Murderer. A contributor to various short story anthologies, Philip Gooden also works as an editor, most recently on the Mammoth Book of Literary Anecdotes and a new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World for Penguin Classics. He has also written the popular Who's Whose?: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily-Confused Words, published by Bloomsbury. He lives in Bath where he is currently working on the first in a new series of historical novels.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Word at War: World War Two in 100 Phrases
Éditeur : Bloomsbury Information (edition Reprint)
Date d'édition : 2015
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good
Edition : Reprint.