Rothmann's diatribe about the war lexicon (i.e., to be brave is to be gallant, to die is to perish, etc.) is a patent rip-off of Paul Fussel's "The Great War and Modern Memory" (Oxford University Press, 1975), and there is nowhere any mention made in the credits of the book. Nice move.
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I'd go back a further step to Orwell's 1946 essay "Politics and the English Language." Here's some more Orwellian-style euphemisms:
Ministry of Defence = Ministry of War
unprovoked aggression = their side starts the war
pre-emptive counterattack = our side starts the war
democracy = our form of government
fascism/tyranny/dictatorship/police state = their form of government
freedom = what we're fighting for
sunk = when our ships are destroyed
blown out of the water = when their ships are destroyed
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