Don Featherstone's Air War Games

The most exciting Item of post I received last week was a proof copy of the new edition of this classic Wargames book. The original was one of the first Wargames books I read and has long been a favourite of mine. I was delighted therefore, when John Curry who is republishing this book as part of his History of Wargaming Project asked me if he could include my Sturmstaffel game. The other new games which are included in this edition are On a Wing and a Prayer by John Armatys and Ian Drury's Rolling Thunder.
Further discussions with John saw me being asked to contribute photos. As a result, all of the photos of toys in the book were taken by me and feature models in my collection. While some were shamelessly posed, most were actually taken during games and have appeared previously on this very blog!
The cover shows my bodged together 1/144 Amiot 354 being pursued by a Bf110.
I also re-wrote the chapter on the availability of model aircraft as the 1966 original was already (and inevitably) very out of date by the time I first encountered the book in 1977.
John tells me the book will be available in the next few weeks - see the HoW website for more.