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Glossary of the First World War

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By Robert Wilde, About.com

Primary and even secondary works on the First World War are often filled with the slang and acronyms of a bygone age. This glossary is designed for readers of those works; all definitions refer to the 1914-1918 usage only. Glossary of the First World War

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Bibliography
A Western Front Companion 1914-1918 by John Laffin (Sutton, 1997)
]The Long Trail: What the British Soldier Sang and Said in the Great War of 1914-1918, J. Brophy and Eric Partridge (Deutsch, 1965)
The Longman Companion to the First World War by Colin Nicholson (Longman, 2001)
The Macmillan Dictionary of the First World War by Stephen Pope and Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (Macmillan, 1995)
The World War One Sourcebook by Philip J. Haythornthwaite (Brockhampton Press, 1998)

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