Library Books on the World Wars of the 20th Century With Games

January 7, 2022 9:59 AM

I checked out a pair of folio-size, hardback books about WWI and WWII from the elementary school library at least 40 years ago. They each had paper-and-pencil wargames in them. I would like to find any information on them at all.

I thought of them for the first time in years after seeing Bismarck Solitaire. It brought back a vague memory of the naval warfare game in the back of one of the books. Both books had a war game and they probably are why I'm still interested in games decades later.

I've searched for all the naive variations of the obvious terms and couldn't find anything about books that would have been in a suburban Atlanta elementary school library in the late 1970s or very early '80s.

posted by ob1quixote to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (2 answers total)

I showed this question to a friend of mine who’s deep into board games, and he thought it might be the Battlegame Books series by Andrew McNeil.
posted by Kattullus at 4:19 PM on January 7, 2022 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thank you. Those look pretty cool and I'm intrigued. But no, these were history books about WWI and WWII written for older children that contained a game to be played with paper, pencil, and geometric tools like a compass and protractor as part of the history lesson.
posted by ob1quixote at 4:58 PM on January 7, 2022 [1 favorite]