Sleng-Chto Eto Takoe? Anglo-Russkii Slovar' Voennogo Slenga de Sudzilovskii, G. A - 1973

Moskva: Voennoe Izdatel'stvo Ministerstva Oborony SSSR, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition; 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; pp. [2], 3-180, [4]; cloth-backed paper over boards; a bit of rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners; a few scratches lower margin of front cover; very good or better. An interesting and, at times, amusing English-Russian dictionary of military slang from the Cold War era. Some of the definitions are those of words such as "kerwhump" (the sound imitation of an explosion), "Hanoi Hilton" (POW camp in Vietnam), and "frog sticker" (bayonet). The book also contains chapters on the definitions of the words "slang" in general and "military slang" in particular.