The English Civil War (Airfix Magazine Guide, No. 28) (Signed and Inscribed)

64pp, with black and white illustrations.  Signed and inscribed by George Gush (author) on the first leaf.  Glazed pictorial boards.  8vo.  A little rounded on corners, heavily sunned over spine.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 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.