Balkan Wargamer

 This is a reprint of the  Memoirs of the Life of the Late Right Honourable John Lindesay, Earl of Craufurd , written by Richard Rolt. The m...

This is the final novel in my Nigel Tranter project , fifty books re-read. The shelf is now bare, well, not quite, as I have simply filled i...

 This new Osprey MAA by Raffaele D'Amato is an overview of the Byzantine (arguably Late Roman) armies of Justinian the Great, 527-565 A...

 The latest in my Nigel Tranter project isn't really a historical novel, but it has a historical subject. The Stone refers to the Stone ...

This book about the First Bulgarian Empire is by Eric Halsey, who hosts the excellent Bulgarian History Podcast . It is the first English-la...

I am not a huge fantasy gamer, but I have a modest collection and enjoyed Dragon Rampant when it came along, as I do all of Dan Mersey'...

 I have slipped out of my chronological reread of Nigel Tranter's novels with this one, which is based on the story of the MacGregors in...

 This is a newish Osprey Campaign book by Angus Konstam covering the ill-fated Arctic convoy PQ-17 in 1942. I became interested in the Arcti...

I was at the Battleground show in Middlesbrough yesterday. One of my favourite shows with its mix of wargames, reenactors and history talks....

 I have an article in the new edition of Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy (138), on the Cretan War 1645-1671. It provides an overview of the...