Balkan Wargamer

 This is John Gill's detailed study of the final battle of the 1809 campaign between France and Austria. I have gamed it a couple of tim...

The skirmish game, Pillage, is very popular at my wargames club.  I have resisted the temptation, taking the view that I have plenty of skir...

 Yesterday was the Edinburgh Claymore show, held on the Edinburgh College site at Granton. As usual, it was excellently organised by the Edi...

 My bedtime reading has been the first of Alex Rutherford's Empire of the Moghuls series. I am sure I have read one of the later ones ma...

 I was listening to the Age of Napoleon podcast on Sweden in the Napoleonic Wars, which reminded me of Britain's intervention in their ...

 This is Angus Konstam's examination of the crucial battle between Prussia and Austria in June 1866. Fought at the town of Könnigrätz (...

 One of the reasons I chose western Serbia for my recent trip, apart from the stunning scenery, was to visit the sites of the early WW1 batt...

My library pick this month was William Thomson's history of Orkney. It is the full version (500 pages), so probably a bit much if you j...

 My latest book , Clash of Empires in the Balkans: Ottoman-Russia-Austria War of 1736-1739 , is now on sale. It is always good to get to the...

 This is Anthony Kaldellis's new look at the Siege of Constantinople. I thought I had this subject well covered, but, like the author, I...