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Description
Description: Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia 1942.
Condition: Near Mint Plus
Comments: Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia 1942. Approximate size 10.5cm W x 15.5cm H. Hard cover no dust jacket, 54 pages.
In the inimitable prose of the soldier’s pocketbook series, this pithy guide captures the essence of Australia and its people, their humour, vocabulary, their attitude to the Yanks, the British, the War and the world with remarkable economy and clarity. It also manages to squeeze in a precis of Australian history, politics, economics, sports, and musical tradition, as well as colourful lexicon of national slang, which defines for example sheila as ‘a babe’, cliner as ‘another babe’, and sninny as ‘a third babe’. Like any self-respecting guide to Australian culture, it contains the text of Waltzing Matilda, together with a few bon mots about its cultural significance, particularly in wartime. Unlike cricket, which is a polite game, Australian Rules Football creates a desire on the part of the crowd to tear someone apart, usually the referee. The Australian has few equals in the world at swearing …the commonest swear words are bastard (pronounced ‘barstud’), ‘bugger,’ and ‘bloody,’ and the Australians have a genius for using the latter nearly every other word.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.75 kg |
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