War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases from the Cival War to the Gulf War in hardcover format by Paul Dickson. Published by Pocket Books in 1994. Available in New condition.
Paul Dickson is the author of several classic baseball books, including The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, The Unwritten Rules of Baseball, The Hidden Language of Baseball, and The Joy of Keeping Score. He is also the author of the seminal narrative history Sputnik: The Shock of the Century and the coauthor of the acclaimed The Bonus Army: An American Epic. He lives in Garrett Park, Maryland.