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Wargaming books and landmark sets of wargaming rules

Key works in the development of the hobby and professional wargaming

Popular books include:
  • Innovations in Wargaming: Developments in Professional and Hobby Wargames
  • The Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame
  • The British Army 1956 Wargame
  • Donald Featherstone's Battle Notes for Wargamers; solo wargaming edition
  • Donald Featherstone's Solo Wargaming
  • Paddy Griffith's Napoleonic Wargaming for Fun
  • Tony Bath's Ancient Wargaming
  • WRG 6th Editon Ancients
  • Video lecture on the Classic Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame (50 mins) link
  • Short video by the father of modern Wargaming, Donald Featherstone link
  • TwitterFollow History of Wargaming project on twitter link
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Latest news

May 2012- Dark Guest: Training Games for Cyberwarfare is now in print. See Serious Game section for further details.

April 2012- Donald Featherstone's Air Wargames Revised Edition now in print and 2 new historical novels by Donald Featherstone.See book reviews for Redcoats for Raj under historical novels.

April 2012: Many of the books are now available as e-books for the ipad/ Nook or from www.lulu.com. The rest of the books will be converted in due course. February 2012 Innovations in Wargaming Vol 1 A new book about the many different styles of wargaming.

December 2011: Orders over the next few days will be dispatched on December 28th. Merry christmas to all my customers

November 2011 Video introduction to the History of Wargaming Project See Youtube link

October 2011 Donald Featherstone Tank Battles Vol 4 link and Early Wargames Vol 1. link

September 2011: Charles Grant's Wargame campaigns has now been added to the site and Charles Grant and Stuart Asquith's Scenario for All Ages.

June 2011 Peter Perla's Art of Wargaming now back in print. Classic book on how the professional use wargaming for real. Has a lot about the history of wargames and how board game development fits into professional gaming development.

Charge! by Brig. Peter Young and Lt. Col. Crawford is now available from this site.

May 2011: Featherstone and Robinson's Battle with Model Tanks and Featherstone's Wargamers Guide to the American War of Independence (with new chapter) now in print.

Due to the scale of the project, I have been able to negotiate some price reductions for some of the books available through the project.

April 2011: The Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame book is now in print. Includes large amounts of previously unpublished material

Feedback on the Fletcher Pratt Naval Wargame book

'I just finished reading your new book. Brilliant! What you've put together is so much more useful than a dry recitation of the rules. And the little asides by Bothwell and others were especially interesting and helped give a real feel for what was going on at the time.' Charles Hall April 2011

'A great book! Lots of research has clearly gone into it, and I shall enjoy perusing it'. Chris Lewin April 2011

A new section with wargaming book reviews has just been added to the site, starting with Grand Battery a guide & rules for Napoleonic Wargames by Jon Sutherland and Dian Canwell.

March 2011 The History of Wargaming Project is trading on Sunday, 8th May 2011 in Bristol link The morning sale 10.00-2.00 is a large wargaming carboot sale. Afterwards 1.00-4.00 I am running the a WWII air attack and naval action around a convoy using the previously unpublished Fletcher Pratt rules. Involving airplanes on sticks, it is a lively and entertaining game. Visitors are welcome to join in.

December 2010 Donald Featherstone's Battle Notes for Wargamers; solo wargaming edition

October 2010 Terry Wise's Introduction to Battle Gaming, including his unpublished rules now in print

October 2010 Donald Featherstone's Wargaming Pike and Shot revised edition now in print. Includes a new set of rules by the man himself.

August 2010: Sadly Terry Wise, one of the great early names of the hobby, has passed away

The History of Wargaming Project has moved from www.johncurryevents.co.uk to www.wargaming.co (note there is no .uk at the end )

24th June Sad news Paddy Griffith, wargamer, author, military historian, passed away. Paddy has done more than most to make the hobby respectable as a tool to learn about military history.

June 2010 Donald Featherstones Tank Battles in Miniature Vol 1 now in print

June 2010 Phil Dunn's Sea Battles, revised edition now in print.

April 2010 WRG 6th Edition now back in print. This edition includes the Airfix Guide to Ancient Wargaming as an introduction to this landmark set of rules.

Jan 2010- Thomas Allen's War Games, professional wargaming 1945-1985 now in print. This includes much material on the professional history of wargaming Link


The History of Wargaming Project aims to collate, preserve and make available key work from the history of wargaming. It includes wargaming books from Donald Featherstone, Charlie Wesencraft, Paddy Griffith, Phil Dunn, Phil Barker, Tony Bath, Fletcher Pratt, Terry Wise, Dunn Kempf and others. The project includes hobby gaming and professional wargames played by the American Army, the British Army, the Royal Navy and the RAF (scheduled to print in 2011). The project includes previously unpublished material. The lead editor is John Curry. All work that is in copyright is produced with the agreement of the original author or their estate.