A dictionary of abbreviations with especial attention to wartime abbreviations

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"This dictionary, which does not pretent to be complete, is designed to help civilians and those numerous member of H.M. Forces who are not experts in abbreviation, to make their way amid the jungle of abbreviations through which newspaper readers and sailors, soldiers, airment have to thrust, like intrepid explorers, either in the search for truth or the execution of their martial duty...."--From Preface.