Balkan Wargamer

 ITVx is currently streaming the old Hornblower series. It provides a handy backdrop for my painting, as my usual poison, Turkish TV, requir...

 My latest bedtime reading is The Heretic by David Pilling. It is another grim story, and after Vlad , I really must review my choice of b...

 I thought I had visited almost all of the castles in this part of North Yorkshire, but looking for a stop on our way home, I realised I had...

 This is Dževada Šuśko's study of how Bosniaks adapted to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's occupation of Bosnia in 1878 and its formal...

 My holiday reading has been Claudiu-Ion Neagoe's new book for Helion on the military organisation of Moldavia and Wallachia in the Pha...

We are down in North Yorkshire, and stopped off at the very pleasant market town of Helmsley on the way down. While my wife toured the shops...

 This is C.C. Humphreys' fictional take on the life of Vlad Tepes, better known as 'The Impaler' or Dracula. This was my bedtime...