Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942
Series: Instructions for Servicemen;
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Product details:
- Publisher The Bodleian Library
- Date of Publication 1 September 2006
- ISBN 9781851243952
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages72 pages
- Size 166x125x11 mm
- Weight 98 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 Illustrations, black & white 0
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Short description:
1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America?s strategy to defeat Japan. In the pithy prose of the soldier?s pocketbook series, this guide captures the essence of Australians, their vocabulary; their attitude to the Yanks, the British, the War and the world with remarkable humour.
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Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America?s strategy to re-capture the Philippines and defeat Japan.
They encountered a country full of reassuring similarities and strange differences. Here was a land of wide-open spaces, roughly the same size as the US, with a can-do, pioneering spirit, a history of swift development; a land of ?funny animals? and peculiar vowel sounds. But who were the Australians and how were Americans to behave in their midst? They were, of course, ?an outdoors sort of people, breezy and very democratic?, with a gargantuan appetite for swearing.
In the inimitable prose of the soldier?s pocket book 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 précis 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.
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