The War Game

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1971. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. Illustrations. Maps and Diagrams. (10" x 7�": 191 pages; 25 photographs; 28 maps and diagrams.) Bibliography. Index. Some ink underlining and marks noted. Foreword by Brigadier Peter Young. Ex-library with usual library markings. "Withdrawn" stamp and white-out portion on half-title page. Charles Grant was a Scottish game author who helped popularize the hobby of tabletop wargaming. He is best known as the author of The War Game. Born in Scotland, and served in the Royal Air Force in World War II. Later in Scotland Yard's Special Branch. Contributor to Military Modelling and Battle. Sometime editor of Slingshot the Journal of the Society of Ancients. He has had influence amongst the designers of Warhammer Ancient Battles. Jeff Jonas describes his writings as inspirational. He died in May 1979. He is survived by his son Charles S. Grant, who is also a published wargamer. Derived from the original review of Charles Grant's "The War Game", from Wargamer's Newsletter # 116, November 1971 . I had read and enjoyed most of the contents of this book when originally published in "Tradition" magazine and now this most lavish and pleasingly presented book makes re-reading it a pleasure.... I am very impressed with the manner in which Charles Grant remains satisfied and loyal to his rules... It is a most pleasingly presented book... Charles backs his theories with historical illustrations and,... it admirably does what it sets out to do - to arouse interest in a pleasing period of warfare without once straying from the fact that it is an enjoyable game that is being described and not a highly technical and intense simulation of real warfare. All-in-all, this is a most pleasing contribution to the ever growing literature of wargaming and, speaking with some experience, may I say that I think that Charles's publishers have done him proud!