Military Effectiveness, Volume 1 – The First World War; Military Effectiveness, Volume II – The Interwar Period; Military Effectiveness, Volume III – The Second World War (Mersham Center series on International Security and Foreign Policy) (Three volumes)

Complete in three volumes.  362pp; 282pp; 376pp.  Glossy stiff  card covers. 8vos. Sun-faded covers with spine titles completely faded, wear to covers, chipping to edges, corners starting to curl and mild reading creases along spine; blind-embossed pervious owner’s stamps on covers. Text block edges slightly spotted with upper text block edges a little dust marked. Blind-embossed pervious owner’s stamps on first and last pages else internally neat, clean and tight.

These copies come 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.