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I know books are not good for me. Good historical fiction is really bad for me. I enjoyed Andy Johnson's book Seelowe Nord so much th...

  The Italian Army of WW2 gets a generally bad press. This is largely based on the early war performance in the Western Desert. After that,...

Just finished my latest Ben Kane book, Hannibal - Enemy of Rome. I am always going to be sucked into a book about the Punic Wars and need...

My latest read has been Giles Christian's Sons of Thunder. This is the second of his Raven series covering the adventures of a shipload ...

Just finished the second of Andy Johnson's World War 2 series 'Thunder in May'. I raved about his first book 'Seelowe Nord...

Reinforcements for the 1877 project. More Outpost Miniatures from their superb range. First we have Russian Cossack cavalry and artillery....

New addition to the Italian forces for the Mediterranean campaigns is a flight of Fiat CR.42 aircraft. Also useful for the Spanish Civil War...

The Clydeside Brigade is looking good with the latest arrivals adding to their strength. Fascists beware! However, something was missing - ...

Just finished my first Kindle book, Afrika Reich by Guy Saville. I didn't think I would like an electronic book reader, but I was wrong...

This weekend was was our annual Double Header at GDWS. An opportunity to play big games that take too long to fit into the normal Sunday aft...

This is a new booklet from Partizan Press on the Hungarian Army during the year of revolutions as it sought to break away from the Hapsburg...

The New Year brings some new recruits to the Clydeside Brigade. First we have a shipyard rifle platoon. They have taken the Covenanters as...

A bit of an indulgence this but I couldn't resist these figures and A Very British Civil War was just the excuse. May I present the Du...

My post-Xmas reading was Andy Johnson's Seelowe Nord: The Germans are Coming . This is a fictional account of the German invasion of Bri...

Happy new year! I suspect one prominent military history anniversary this year will be Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Of course I am a...

My post Christmas gaming, other than a multi-player Napoleonic Principles of War game, has  focused on Dark Age skirmishing. Firstly, with...

This the remarkable story of John Morse, told in his own words, an Englishman caught in Germany at the outset of WW1. He was on business i...

Crime fiction is not my usual genre, but when the setting is 19th Century Istanbul and the author is a historian of the period, I am intere...

We had an opportunity at the club last week to expand our understanding of the Black Powder rules using the Last Argument of Kings supplemen...

My somewhat belated copy of Burning Empires turned up this week. This is the latest Flames of War supplement covering the early war in the M...