WARGAMES FROM WORLD WAR II: Examples of Axis and Allied Wargaming Rules and Umpire Guidelines

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Examines the detail of wargames played before and during World War II by including primary material as well as extracts from source documents, wargaming rules, and umpiring guides from the pre-war period until 1945. Includes detailed guidelines on the German use of wargaming during the war based on post-war analysis by the American military, samples of the German map based tactical exercises set at platoon and company level, an example of a British attack on a village, British and American umpire manuals with rules for arbitrating field exercises as well as sand table and map wargames. and a Royal Navy carrier wargame: Find Fix and Strike (1944).