Balkan Wargamer

In 1943, Churchill decided to switch British support from the Serbian based Chetniks, to the largely Communist Partisans - in leadership ter...

A spare hour when in London this week took me to the British Museum. I haven't been around the upstairs exhibition halls for many a year...

My latest reading is a bit esoteric. It is a reprint of an 1888 travelogue, written by Oliver Wardrop, covering his trip around the nation o...

My cheery New Year reading has been ' Vlad the Impaler: Son of the Devil, Hero of the People' by Gavin Baddeley and Paul Woods. I m...

My painting productivity has been very poor over the holidays. Too many great books and games as well as working on the web site. However, I...

Roxelana, called Hürrem Sultan, was the concubine and later the legal wife of the Ottoman Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent. Her exceptional ...

The Battle of Aleksinac was fought during September and October 1876. It was the decisive action of the First Serbo-Turkish War 1876-77 and ...

Happy New Year to everyone. I hope you all got a good selection of books, and for the wargamers, new toys to play with! Just looking back ...

This is the first volume in an Osprey MAA two part series on the wars of unification by Gabriele Esposito. The emphasis here is on th...

My pre-Christmas reading has been a new book on the Albanian hero Scanderbeg (or George Castriota) by A.K.Brackob, published by Histria Book...

This is the third in the Aelfraed series from historical fiction author Griff Hosker. I haven't read the first two in the series, but wa...

An Osprey title on a Balkan theme is a no brainer for me - I wonder if you can do a standing order! Phoebus Athanassiou has tackled the Gree...

The centenary of the First World War has inspired a large number of books on the campaigns and armies of the conflict. However, very few cov...