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Monday, 6 July 2009

HG Wells, the English Novelist, playing an Indoor War Game


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  1. All wargames should be played in a shirt and tie! Moustaches are, of course, optional!

    Matt

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  2. I've always loved this picture!

    Best Regards,

    Stokes

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  3. One of the other chaps in the picture is Jerome K Jerome, author of Three Men In A Boat, the older guy is Frank Palmer Wells' publisher who persuaded him to write Little Wars in the first place. I like the way the buildings and trees are all slightly larger than reality - a bit like those ads for the chest of toy soldiers in old DC comics

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