Battle Studies in the Peninsula, May 1808-January 1809: A Historical Guide to the Military Actions in Spain, Portugal and Southern France between June 1808 and April 1814, with Notes for Wargamers

First edition, first impression.  xiv, 248pp, with maps and some small page decorations in text.  Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine.  8vo.  Volume very slightly cocked.  Cloth a little rounded at corners and spine ends.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a previous owner’s blind embossed stamp on both free endpapers.    In its original glossy. illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped, a little bumped around extreme edges, with a previous owner’s blind embossed stamp on the inner front flap. 

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.