Balkan Wargamer

I have now played a few games with Scott's fabulous 10mm armies for this battle. However, I hadn't managed to actually visit the bat...

The Household Division of the British army consists of two cavalry regiments and five regiments of Foot Guards. In order of precedence; Gre...

The Great Northern War is now better known following some great books and wargame figure ranges. However, the war with the Ottoman Turks tha...

The Fourth Crusade never actually reached the Holy Land. The Venetians managed to divert the crusading army, first to the Adriatic town of Z...

I picked up a copy of C.M Woodhouse's 'The Battle of Navarino' in a second hand bookshop, prior to my recent trip to the Pelopon...

During my recent visit to The Peloponnese I stopped off at the Corinth Canal. I was obviously familiar with the German airborne assault on t...

We had a few hours in Athens on Saturday before our flight back to Edinburgh. A trip to the Parthenon and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...

HI visited ancient Mycenae today. Situated in the foothills of Mount Zara near Argos, it was the capital of the mighty Mycenaean civilisatio...