From "a" to "zombie," open this Book of Fighting Back to any page and meet the "dictionary that turns on a dime." Careen like quicksilver through realms of irony, humor, sarcasm, praise, and denunciation as they transmute into each other from instant to instant. Their object? Catharsis: the cheering of soldiers in a battle apparently being lost; defiant laughter in the face of enemies lately recognized--exuberant laughter just before the turn of the tide in this War to the Life.