Search Results: the bomb and the computer by andrew wilson

Former owner's sticker on the fep. Pages unmarked.

Delacorte Press, 1968. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1968. First Printing. 218 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Full title: The Bomb and the Computer: Wargaming From Ancient Chinese Mapboard to Atomic Computer. Binding remains firm. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Water staining to edges. Light tanning to spine and edges. Pen inscription to front flap. Wear marks overall.

Delacorte Press, New York, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. introduction by author, index of names, index of games. Black coloured endpapers. Yellow cloth covers with three red bombs embossed on the front panel of and red coloured titles to the spine. Top corners of the book are bumped and shelf wear evident to the bottom edges. Browning and scuffing to the top paper edge. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a line illustration of a bomb against the red background, with yellow, black and white Colin titles to front panel and black and white coloured titles to the spine. The dustwrapper is rubbed and faded, particularly front panel and spine. The top and bottom edges are chipped and creased particularly on the corners and the top and bottom of the spine. The author explains how a stratagem used by the Prussian Army -- the war-game -- has been used to promulgate effects of nuclear war. This is the First USA Edition. Size: 8vo - over… Read More

London: Barrie and Rockliff / The Cresset Press, 1968. xii, 180pp, 12 text-figures, references, indexes of names and games. Page edges lightly foxed, soiled. Or cl boards in dust-jacket. The book describes, for the general reader, 'the evolution of the war game as a serious, and often unreliable, military planning device. It led to disaster in the hands of the German General Staff in 1914, and in those of the Japanese navy in 1941. Later in the Second World War, more scientific methods of operation research were perfected; but these proved impotent to answer questions presented by the H-bomb'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

pb, 197pp.

.- London. 1968. The Cresset Press. 4º menor. 180 p. Tela editorial. Sellos anterior biblioteca. Etiqueta en lomera. . . .

New York: Delacorte Press, 1968. First Printing. very good, fair to good. xv, [3], 218 pages. Figures. Index of Names. Index of Games. DJ worn along edges and slightly soiled, small piece missing at DJ spine. Andrew Wilson's 1968 book was the first to describe for the general reader the evolution of the war game as a serious, and sometimes unreliable, military planning tool. The author was the Defence Correspondent to The Observer Newspaper. He was granted special access to the Pentagon and other secret sources of information and interviewed many leading experts on policy-making on both sides of the Atlantic. The result was an authoritative and readable work on the subject that was directly related to the precarious balance of power in the Cold War. The book demonstrates how crucial war games were in American weapon development, foreign policy and war fighting plans during the dark days of the Cold War. The evolution of the war game as a serious, and often unreliable, military planning device,… Read More