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War Game is a children's novel about World War I written and illustrated by Michael Foreman and published by Pavilion in 1993. [1] It features four young English soldiers and includes football with German soldiers during the Christmas truce, "temporary relief from the brutal and seemingly endless struggle in the trenches".
This book comes in both a 285-page hardcover edition and a paperback version. In both editions, it is divided into two parts: Part 1: "An Introduction to Wargames" takes up about 25% of the book, and is divided into five chapters: Can War Be Fun? A brief history of wargaming, some of the notable companies, and what type of people play wargames.
WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film [2] directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy.
The children learn military strategy and leadership by playing increasingly difficult war games, including some in zero gravity, where Ender's tactical genius is revealed. The book originated as a short story of the same name, published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. [1] The novel was published on January 15, 1985.
Liferock: An Earthdawn Novel, 2010, RedBrick; Caroline Spector, Immortals trilogy: Since the original Earthdawn novel series was canceled as the books were being written, the first two were first published as French and German translations in the 1990s. Scars: A Lost Novel of Earthdawn, 2005, ISBN 0-9745734-2-6 Scars: An Earthdawn Novel, 2010 ...
A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict. [1] Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to study the nature of potential conflicts.
Bob Woodward's next book, continuing a long tradition of election year releases, will focus on the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and how they shape American presidential politics. Simon ...
Bond's began his writing career by collaborating with Tom Clancy on Red Storm Rising (1986), a New York Times bestseller that was one of the best-selling books of the 1980s. It depicted a hypothetical conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact , drawing heavily on current analysis of what such a conflict would be like.