Charles Grant was a game author who helped popularize the hobby of tabletop wargaming

Miniature wargaming

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. He is best known as the author of The War Game.

Born in Scotland, and served in the Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

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 in World War 2. Later in Scotland Yard

Scotland Yard

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's Special Branch

Special Branch

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. Contributor to Military Modelling and Battle. Sometime editor of Slingshot the Journal of the Society of Ancients

Society of Ancients

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.

He has had influence amongst the designers of Warhammer Ancient Battles

Warhammer Ancient Battles

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. Jeff Jonas describes his writings as inspirational.

Died May 1979. He is survived by his son Charles S. Grant, who is also a published wargamer.

Books

• Battle: Practical Wargaming, Charles Grant, Model and Allied Publications, 1970.
• The War Game, Charles Grant, A. & C. Black, 1971, (Back in print as on May 2008)
• The Ancient War Game, Charles Grant, A. & C. Black, 1974, ISBN 0-7136-1448-X.
• Battle of Fontenoy
  Battle of Fontenoy
  The Battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745, was a major engagement of the War of the Austrian Succession, fought between the forces of the Pragmatic Allies – comprising mainly Dutch, British, and Hanoverian troops under the nominal command of the Duke of Cumberland – and a French army under Maurice de...
  
  (Background books for wargamers and modellers) 1975
• Napoleonic Wargaming, Charles Grant, Model and Allied Publications, 1974. (To be re-publisheed by Caliver Books , Summer 2008)
• Ancient Battles for Wargamers, Charles Grant, Model and Allied Publications, 1977. ISBN 0-85242-553-8
• Wargame Tactics, Charles Grant, Cassell, 1979. ISBN 0-304-30470-0