The Wargaming Pioneers, including Little Wars by H Wells, The War Game for Boy Scouts and The War Game by Captain Sachs, 18981940: Early War Games, Volume One

210pp, with black and white illustrations.  Laminated stiff card covers.  8vo.  Gentle edge wear to card covers else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. This copy from the library of the late George R P Gush.  Gush  was head of history at West Kent College but is perhaps better remembered as a key contributor to the development of early wargaming, and as an active wargamer especially in Renaissance wargames.  His Renaissance Armies (1975) has become a classic work on the topic.  He founded the Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society in the late 1960s, remaining its chairman until 2007.  A regular contributor to various wargaming and modelling magazines, he authored with Andrew Finch  A Guide to Wargaming (1980) and the well-regarded Wargames Rules for Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries.