Introduction / Part 1: Soldier’s Slang / Part 2: Soldier’s Songs / Appendices / Select Bibliography
A complete history of common songs, slangs and colloquial English from the Great War of 1914-18 published to coincide with the centenary celebrations.
Martin Pegler has a BA Hons in Medieval and Modern History and an MA in Museum Studies, both from University College, London, and was for many years the Senior Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. Martin has established The Somme Historical Centre (www.martinpegler.com), where visitors can see the technology used in the 1914-18 trench warfare. He is currently an author and firearms consultant and he also lectures at local Great War museums. He is the author of a number of books including The Military Sniper since 1914 (Osprey, 2001), Firearms in the American West 1700-1900 (The Crowood Press, 2002), and the highly acclaimed Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper (Osprey, 2004), and he has also contributed to a number of magazines. In the 1980s he had the privilege of interviewing many World War I veterans about their wartime experiences, and the recordings are now part of the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum, London.
"Osprey brings a social dimension to World War I's centennial with its enormously entertaining Soldiers' Songs and Slang of the Great War. You might go bapoo at its sheer number of fascinating facts and factoids. And you might even scream, 'Sweet Fanny Adams!' But anyone with even a passing interest in the 'War to End All Wars' will love this terrific tome." --Cybermodeler Online
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