The War of the Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear: Military History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05

300pp, with black and white illustrations.  Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers.  8vo.  The card covers are somewhat rubbed at edges, reading creases and curl to spine.  A little duskiness to upper text block edge.   Previous owner's blind embossed stamp on the title page else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. This copy comes from the collection 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.