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  • Historical Memoirs of the Irish Rebellion, in the Year 1641. Extracted From Parliamentary Journals, ... and the Most Eminent Protestant Historians. Together With an Appendix, ... In a Letter to Walter
    John Curry
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the...
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    35,29 €

  • A Brief Account From the Most Authentic Protestant Writers of the Causes, Motives, and Mischiefs, of the Irish Rebellion, on the 23d day of October 1641, Deliver’d in Dialogue Between a Dissenter, and
    John Curry
    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the...
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    32,42 €

  • The Confrontation Analysis Handbook
    John Curry / Mike Young
    'This book makes an important contribution to the development of professional wargaming practise' Dr Peter Perla.Confrontation Analysis, also called dilemma analysis or drama theory, was originally devised by Professor Nigel Howard in 1997 as a way of modelling crises. Although used by UK General Rupert Smith, the method fell into obscurity. After 10 years work in the defence s...
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    23,07 €

  • Target for Tonight
    David Wayne Thomas / John Curry
    A solo game for 1 to 6 players about the experience of flying bombing missions over Germany 1942-44.The RAF and the USAAF dropped 1.6 billion tons of bombs on Germany between 1939 and 1945. The impact on the German war machine was huge, but so was the cost. 55,573 Bomber Command crew lost their lives during this campaign. Each morning the weather and moon state were suitable, ...
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    19,73 €

  • Duke Seifried and the Development of American Miniature Wargaming Including Duke’s Melee (1960) and Jim Getz’s Napoleonique (1971)
    Duke Seifried / Jim Getz / John Curry
    Uncle Duke is one of those larger than life characters who helped develop miniature wargaming in the United States. The Jack Scruby Award (1995) summarised him as an American original, an entrepreneur and business man, a master sculptor, designer, and painter, a rule writer, publisher, and historian, a master showman, salesman, friend of Donald Featherstone and advocate. This ...
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    23,41 €

  • An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland
    John Curry
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    26,49 €

  • An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland, From the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, to the Settlement Under King William, With the State of the Irish Catholics, From That Settlement to
    John Curry
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    25,64 €

  • Small Wars New Perspectives on Wargaming Counter Insurgency on the Tabletop
    David Wayne Thomas / John Armatys / John Curry
    The author has been a wargamer since the 1970s, member of Wargame Developments and a serious rule writer since the early 1990s. His long standing interest in asymmetric warfare led him to develop a series of wargames to reflect the individual characteristics of such conflicts. All except one of these sets of rules are written to portray the operational/ campaign level situatio...
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    21,28 €

  • John CandlerÕs (1964) Miniature Wargames
    John Candler / John Curry
    Around the time Donald Featherstone published War Games in 1962, the book that was key in launching modern hobby wargames, others were publishing comprehensive sets of rules. This example by John Candler was published in the United States in 1964 and was one of the better known. The original rules were published in a green ring binder, with 123 pages of detailed rules for a Nap...
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    21,11 €

  • Modern Crises Scenarios for Matrix Wargames
    John Curry / Tim Price
    'In Matrix Games, knowledge, imagination, and persuasiveness dominate. Matrix Games boil down the art of gaming to its essence'. Peter Perla Since the book Matrix Games for Modern Wargaming was first published in 2014, they have made a massive impact on professional military education, operational analysis and training. This book was written in response to requests for a...
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    22,13 €

  • The Old West Skirmish Wargames
    John Curry / Mike Blake / Steve Curtis
    These classic rules launched skirmish wargaming in the UK and the North America. They were played in most wargaming clubs on a regular basis. From stage coach robberies to recreations of gunfights from the pages of history, these rules introduced wargaming with individual figures. This edition includes many previously unpublished chapters. These rules have all that is requi...
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    26,14 €

  • Donald Featherstone’s Wargames through the Ages Volume 2
    Donald Featherstone / John Curry
    Wargames through the Ages was first published to fill a gap in literature of the hobby of wargaming. It was a one volume summary of what was loosely called the Horse and Musket period. Each chapter assesses the techniques and fighting methods of the opposing forces and indeed, the battel descriptions are often sufficiently colourful to inspire reconstruction. In discussing how ...
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    23,84 €

  • The Diary of a World War 1 Cavalryman Corporal Robert Waister of the 18th Hussars 1911-1918
    Charlie Wesencraft / John Curry / John Wesencraft
    Charlie Wesencraft is one of the key early wargamers who through their enthusiasm, knowledge and writing helped turn miniature wargaming into a worldwide hobby. This is the previously unpublished diary of his father in law. Robert Waiser’s diary describes how he served first in the Territorial Army, then joined the 18th Hussars. It goes on to tell how he was captured in one of...
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    16,61 €

  • Lionel Tarr's Modern Wargaming Rules 1939-1945
    John Curry / Lionel Tarr
    Lionel Tarr (1920-2003) is widely recognized as the first modern wargamer, modern being 1939-1945. He first came to prominence when his rules were published in 1962 in Donald Featherstone's classic book, War Games. This book contains much previously unpublished material about the Tarr wargame and his epic decade long WWII Eastern Front Russian Campaign. This wargaming cam...
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    19,73 €

  • Bruce Quarrie’s Tank Battles in Miniature Volume 5
    Bruce Quarrie / John Curry
    Bruce Quarrie (1947-2004) was a prolific author and military historian. He wrote over forty titles, mostly on the Second World War, and edited many more. This outstanding work is a detailed introduction to the Arab-Israeli Wars between 1948 and 1973. That area saw four major campaigns, of which those of 1967 and 1973- the so-called ’Six Day War’ and ’Yom Kippur Wars’- are of pa...
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    21,80 €

  • The Sandhurst Kriegsspiel Wargaming for the Modern Infantry Officer Training for War
    John Curry / Tim Price
    The aim of this book is the first of a series to provide off the shelf wargames that may be of immediate use in military training. This book contains 4 ready to use wargames:Game 1: The Sandhurst Kriegsspiel aims to allow officers to test the plan they devised in a TEWT on the actual ground using the tool of wargaming. Game 2: The Battlegroup Kriegsspiel is next level up game. ...
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    21,99 €

  • Paddy Griffith’s Counter Insurgency Wargames (1980)
    John Curry / Paddy Griffith
    Paddy Griffith (1947- 2010) was a leading British military theorist and historian, who used wargaming as part of his tool set to critically analyse operational and tactical military history. This book includes two previously unpublished COunter-INsurgency (COIN) wargames from 1976 to 1980 and an example of a British Army live-roleplaying COIN from 1980.The first COIN game, Long...
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    18,61 €

  • George Gush’s A Guide to Wargaming
    George Gush / John Curry
    George Gush is a key contributor to the development of early wargaming. His WRG rules for 1400-1700 were the standard rules in wargaming for that period for many years. This book, first published in 1980, is a lesser known classic from that period. The book traces the history of the wargame, relating the professional development of kriegsspiel to the emerging hobby. Then it inc...
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    24,99 €

  • Donald Featherstone’s Wargames Through the Ages Volume 1 A Wargaming Guide to 3000 B.C to 1500 A.D
    Donald Featherstone / John Curry
    Wargames through the Ages was first published to fill a gap in literature of the hobby of wargaming. It was a one volume summary of ancient and medieval warfare. After many years of research and writing on the subject of wargaming, Donald Featherstone provided, under one cover, all the information that a wargamer required to build up armies in the ancient and medieval period. E...
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    26,76 €

  • Little Cold Wars Wargaming the Cold War Using Toy Soldiers
    Bertrand Plastique / John Curry / Tim Gow
    Possibly the sort of wargame H.G Wells might have developed if he had been a child in the 1970s. But perhaps not. Written by Tim Gow (shown left) and Bertrand Plastique, the book recreates battles from the era of the Cold War. Based on the original ideas of H.G. Wells, this book brings the original toy soldier rules up to date to recreate wars from the time of the Cold War onto...
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    21,22 €

  • Army Wargames Two Centuries of Staff College Exercises
    John Curry
    This book contains classic examples of military tactical exercises. They were ’one’ turn wargames, where junior officers were faced with a problem and had to make a combat appreciation, then offer a solution.The book includes five classic examples of this type of mitary exercise:Examples of Moltke’s Staff Problems (1878) with period commentary. The Defence of Duffers Drift (190...
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    22,12 €

  • George Gush’s Wargames Rules For Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (1420-1700)
    George Gush / John Curry
    George Gush was an important contributor to the development of wargaming. He wargamed in virtually all periods, but his favourite was the Renaissance period of the 16/ 17th centuries. These rules are the most successful Renaissance wargaming rules to date and for a number of years were regularly played at most wargaming clubs.The rules are complex by today’s standards and playe...
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    19,24 €

  • The Discovering Wargames Series and Bill Lamming’s Medieval Campaign and Battle Rules
    Bill Lamming / John Curry / John Tunstill
    John Tunstill, Arthur Taylor and Bill Lamming were some of the early wargamers who through their enthusiasm, knowledge and writing helped turn miniature wargaming into a worldwide hobby. This work includes three books: John Tunstill’s Discovering Wargames- published by Shire Books. Arthur Taylor’s Rules for Wargaming - published by Shire Books. Bill Lamming’s tremendously popul...
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    22,90 €

  • Stuart Asquith's Wargaming 18th Century Battles Including Rules for Marlburian Warfare 1702-1714
    John Curry / Stuart Asquith
    Stuart Asquith is a key contributor to the development of modern hobby of wargaming. His extensive work included editing Practical Wargamer for 12 years, authoring over twenty books and editing many more. This book focuses on one of the Stuart Asquith's key interests, 18th century warfare. The attractions of the period are described, along with nine accounts of key battles 17...
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    22,12 €

  • It Could Happen Tomorrow! Emergency Planning Exercises for the Health Service and Business
    John Curry / Russell King
    Since 9/11 there has been a heightened awareness of the need to apply emergency management and business continuity techniques to essential national infrastructure and commerce. Russell King’s book is about exercises that he has written and moderated over 10 years. It answers questions about the true value of exercising for disasters for senior managers and places the disciplin...
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    27,08 €

  • Phil Barker’s Napoleonic Wargaming Rules 1685-1845 (1979)
    John Curry / Phil Barker
    First published in 1971, with a second edition in 1979, these rules were revolutionary for their time. They were written to allow wargamers to replay even the largest battles from the horse and musket era 1685-1845.This popular set of rules were in use primarily for Seven Years War and the Napoleonic Wars for over 25 years. The approximate ratio was 1 figure representing 40-50 ...
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    20,48 €

  • Thomas Allen’s War Games Professional Wargaming 1945-1985
    John Curry / Thomas Allen
    In closely guarded rooms in the Pentagon, in think-tanks and colleges throughout the USA and Europe and deep in the heart of the Kremlin, games are being played. Games with stakes like no other - the fate of the world. Super-sophisticated computers are used to rehearse the wars of the future from small-scale Middle Eastern conflicts to total Armageddon. The results of the WAR G...
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    28,18 €

  • The Coast Artillery War Game (1916) Early Naval Wargaming
    John Curry / Major William Chamberlaine
    Chamberlin’s Coast Artillery Wargame (1916) was designed to train the coastal defence batteries of the United States in the procedures necessary to direct fire. It was a derivative of the better known Fred Jane Naval Wargame. The foreword is written by Al Nofi. The game was played over a large floor based model of a harbor. The players looked down on this area from cubicals at ...
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    23,86 €

  • Phil Dunn’s Your World at War Rules for Global Wargaming Campaigns 1939-45 Including Naval, Land and Air Operations
    John Curry / Phil Dunn
    Phil Dunn, founder of the Naval Wargaming Society and author, presents his World War II era campaign rules.This book documents the rules for one of the classic wargaming campaigns of early British Wargaming. Phil Dunn created global wargames using simple rules to allow players to run large scale world wars. Each player prioritises their production between naval, air and land fo...
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    20,60 €

  • First Battle American Army Divisional Level Wargaming in the Cold War (1979)
    John Curry
    The FIRST BATTLE simulation system was designed to exercise American divisional commanders and staffs in the control and coordination of combined arms operations. The game was played using 1:50000 maps using simple counters. Movement and firing were measured using the 1 km grid squares that were already printed on the maps. The FIRST BATTLE rules are well written, with examples...
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    20,60 €


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