The War Game

Author : Michael Foreman
Publisher : Farshore
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008612730

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War Game by Michael Foreman Pdf

A special lavishly illustrated new edition of Michael Foreman's classic story. It's 1914 when everything changes for a group of boys growing up and playing football in the Suffolk countryside. Far away, in a place called Sarajevo, an Archduke has been killed and a web of global events results in a call for all British men to do their duty 'for King and Country' and join the army to fight the germans overseas. The boys sign up for what sounds like an adventure and a chance to see the world. After basic training the boys sail to France where they find themselves fighting on the front line. Living in the trenches in constant fear for their lives is nothing like they expected and only a bombed-out wasteland, no-man's-land, separates their trenches from those of their German enemies. Then, on Christmas Day, something remarkable happens as the German and British armies stop fighting and meet in the middle of no-man's-land. The enemies talk, play football and become friends. But the war isn't over, the two sides resume fighting and the group of Suffolk lads are ordered to charge across no-man's-land... From the author of War Boy, After the War Was Over, Farm Boy and Billy the Kid and the illustrator of Platinum Jubilee picture book There Once Is a Queen.

Author : Charles Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : War games
ISBN : LCCN:74163088

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The War Game by Charles Grant Pdf

Author : Charles Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907417303

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The War Game Rules by Charles Grant Pdf

Following on from his father's great wargaming classic The War Game Charles Grant Jr. has collated years of rule development, alteration and additions to make this, the updated and complete set of rules. This set of rules is all you will need to fight wargames covering the armies of the eighteenth century and will do very well even for later periods. The rules help you to organise your armies, then cover play sequence, movement rates for all troop types, firing infantry and artillery, how to melee, fighting in built up areas, morale, engineers, river transport, special soldier types, scaling down and much more! These are the master rules from the master wargamer. Colour photographs

Author : Terry Deary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781801991599

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World War I Tales: The War Game by Terry Deary Pdf

From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps _______________ Ideal for readers aged 7+ Stories of the First World War from the bestselling Terry Deary, author of the hugely successful Horrible Histories. Flanders, 1914. The German and British soldiers in the trenches make an unofficial Christmas truce, with carols and a football match. But the officers aren't happy... A veteran soldier and a young recruit are 'celebrating' Christmas in the trenches of Flanders in 1914. They hear the enemy sing carols and watch them place Christmas Trees in the trenches opposite. They begin to shout greetings across no-man's land and end up playing an international football match. The match is hard-fought but with moments of generosity and sportsmanship on both sides. They see the 'enemy' as vulnerable humans and the officers are furious. Further unofficial truces are banned and the war goes on with bullets instead of footballs. But it's a memory that stays with young Albert long after the war. A moving and fascinating look at a very human moment of the Great War, by the master historical storyteller. Book Band: Grey Quizzed for Accelerated Reader _______________ 'Bubbling with wit, language play and robust dialogue....just the right mix of ingredients to trigger young readers' interest in all things historical' - Books For Keeps

Author : Irving Horowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351301626

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The War Game by Irving Horowitz Pdf

War gaming has become a characteristic feature of modern life. From amateur clubs to professional academicians playing the war game in the company of military circles, we have come up against the phenomenon of the "robotization" of human life. Irving Louis Horowitz argues that those who protest the idea that war is a game do so on moral grounds that leave unanswered tough questions: What is the alternative to playing the game? What will become of us if we allow the opponent to become the better "player" in an all-or-nothing game of extinction? Horowitz provides answers in a logical manner while focusing on facts and ethical alternatives to risky ethics. The work is divided into three sections: The New Civilian Militarists, Thermonuclear Peace and Its Political Equivalents, and General Theory of Conflict and Conflict Resolution. Included are such topics as arms, policies, and games; morals, missiles, and militarism; and conflict, consensus, and cooperation. Horowitz concludes that it is time to register the fact that the basic option to destructive uses of science is not traditional morality, but better science a science of survival. With a new introduction by Howard Schneiderman along with a major essay and other materials not included in the original edition, this classic work is a worthy contribution to intellectual debate in the twenty-first century and a must read for military strategists, sociologists, and historians.

Author : War office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600049783

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Rules for the conduct of the war-game by War office Pdf

Author : Adam Suddaby
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001769275

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The Nuclear War Game by Adam Suddaby Pdf

Atomkrig, atomkrigstrussel, afskrækkelse, atomkrigsfrygt, atombombens virkninger, atomvåben, nukleare våben, nuclear weapons, etc - engelsk bog fra 1983 med forskellige synspunkter om afskrækkelse og forsvar i atomkrig, øjenvidneberetninger fra Hiroshima om atombombens virkning og effekt i august 1945. Bogen søger at være neutral og dokumentarisk.

Author : Francis J. McHugh
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : History
ISBN : 1935352008

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Fundamentals of War Gaming by Francis J. McHugh Pdf

Fundamentals of War Gaming provides an in-depth introduction to the basics of military gaming, and offers historical insights into the devewlopment of war gaming methodologies. It covers the evolution of gaming tools such as the ancient adaptations of chess and the development of Kriegspiel to teach military tactics to Prussian officers. The employment of gaming by various military powers, before and during the World Wars, is explored and culminated with the introduction of computer support and simulations in the U.S. Navy.

Author : Francis J. McHugh
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620876411

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U.S. Navy Fundamentals of War Gaming by Francis J. McHugh Pdf

Offers a historical perspective on military gaming and the evolution of the tools and tactics used in ancient times up through modern computer simulations and includes examples of one- and multi-sided games as well as free-play and rigid-style games. Original.

Author : Philipp Von Hilgers
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262300377

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War Games by Philipp Von Hilgers Pdf

The convergence of military strategy and mathematics in war games, from medieval to modern times. For centuries, both mathematical and military thinkers have used game-like scenarios to test their visions of mastering a complex world through symbolic operations. By the end of World War I, mathematical and military discourse in Germany simultaneously discovered the game as a productive concept. Mathematics and military strategy converged in World War II when mathematicians designed fields of operation. In this book, Philipp von Hilgers examines the theory and practice of war games through history, from the medieval game boards, captured on parchment, to the paper map exercises of the Third Reich. Von Hilgers considers how and why war games came to exist: why mathematical and military thinkers created simulations of one of the most unpredictable human activities on earth. Von Hilgers begins with the medieval rythmomachia, or Battle of Numbers, then reconstructs the ideas about war and games in the baroque period. He investigates the role of George Leopold von Reiswitz's tactical war game in nineteenth-century Prussia and describes the artifact itself: a game board–topped table with drawers for game implements. He explains Clausewitz's emphasis on the “fog of war” and the accompanying element of incalculability, examines the contributions of such thinkers as Clausewitz, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, and von Neumann, and investigates the war games of the German military between the two World Wars. Baudrillard declared this to be the age of simulacra; war games stand contrariwise as simulations that have not been subsumed in absolute virtuality.

Author : Michael J. Coumatos,William B. Scott,William J. Birnes
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781429920674

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Space Wars by Michael J. Coumatos,William B. Scott,William J. Birnes Pdf

Michael J. Coumatos is a former U.S. Navy test pilot, ship's captain, and commodore; U.S. Space Command director of wargaming; and a government counterterrorism advisor. William Scott is a retired bureau chief of Aviation Week and Space Technology and a nine-year Air force veteran who served as aircrew on nuclear sampling missions. He is a six-time Royal Aeronautical Society "Journalist of the Year" finalist, and won the Society's 1998 Lockheed Martin Award for the "Best Defense Submission." He also received both the 2006 and 2007 Messier-Dowty awards for "Best Airshow Submission." With the help of New York Times bestselling author William J. Birnes, these renowned experts have joined forces to grippingly depict how the first hours of World War III might play out in the year 2010. Coumatos, Scott, and Birnes take the reader inside U.S. Strategic Command, where top military commanders, space-company executives, and U.S. intelligence experts are conducting a DEADSATS II wargame, exploring how the loss of critical satellites could lead to nuclear war. The players don't know that the war they are gaming has already begun, miles above them in the lifeless, silent cold of space. Jam-packed with the actual systems and secret technologies the United States has or will soon field to protect its space assets, Space Wars describes a near-future nuclear nightmare that terrorists will relish but politicians prefer to ignore. In a quieter, more peaceful time, Space Wars would be an exciting work of fiction. But with the United States now at war, Space Wars is all too real. . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Robert Swindells
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141928852

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Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells Pdf

An 'After-the-Bomb' story told by teenage Danny, one of the survivors - one of the unlucky ones. Set in Shipley, an ordinary town in the north of England, this is a powerful portrayal of a world that has broken down. Danny not only has to cope in a world of lawlessness and gang warfare, but he has to protect and look after his little brother, Ben, and a girl called Kim. Is there any hope left for a new world?

Author : Garry D. Brewer,Martin Shubik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4234065

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The War Game by Garry D. Brewer,Martin Shubik Pdf

This book is a fascinating examination of a subject that has enormous consequences but few initiates--the system of military combat simulations and their advocates in defense establishments. The scope and importance of this field may be hinted at each spring during budget debates, but until now no one has made a full public inquiry into the military studies, the analysis system, and the people behind these obscure enterprises. How did war games come into vogue? Who designs the models that test and measure weapons capabilities--tests whose outcomes their supporters want to use to determine the allocation of millions of dollars, not to mention the deployment of U.S. armaments, around the globe? How are the potential uses of weapons studied when empirical testing is prohibitive or impossible? And what is the state of the war-gaming art and profession? These are but a few of the crucial questions addressed and answered in this work. The authors interviewed and observed war-gaming professionals in depth, exploring the extent and status of gaming in the defense community and examining these in terms of purpose, means of production, operations, uses, benefits, and costs. Consequently, their book is not simply an analysis but a portrait of the profession. As such, it will serve not only as a blueprint for necessary improvements in the military area but also as the catalyst for future work in diverse areas, since the problems of largescale models examined in a war-game context are now being experienced in such newer fields as energy policy and urban planning.

Author : David Bischoff
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1983-08-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0140317015

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War Games by David Bischoff Pdf

Deep in the control room the nation's chiefs watch with alarm as their computers show imminent missile attack. Could this be it? Or is the truth funnier, though almost as alarming.Romanen er baseret på den succesrige film "WarGames" om, hvordan en und computer hacker sætter nationens forsvar i alarmberedskab.

Author : Keith Flint
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781472808110

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Honours of War by Keith Flint Pdf

The Seven Years' War was the pinnacle of 18th-century warfare, with dramatic campaigns and battles, famous leaders, and wide variety of colourful uniforms. Compared with the later Napoleonic Wars, tactics were simpler, armies more professional, and battles tended to be smaller. Using these quick-to-learn rules, players can bring this period to the tabletop, recreating anything from a small skirmish to a major pitched battle. Although simple, the rules allow for a wide range of tactics and reward historical play. That said, fog of war sometimes produces unexpected results and units don't always obey their orders! The game moves quickly, and players must be prepared to regroup and counterattack or to press home an advantage – a lot can happen in one move!