Balkan Wargamer

My non-fiction Xmas reading has been Nigel Birch's dissertation that looks at the British contribution to the Allied victory in the Balk...

My Christmas fiction reading has had a bit of a theme - Bernard Cornwell. I bought ' Stonehenge' when it came out, but unusually ...

With a bit of time pre-Christmas, I have played a couple more scenarios in Warlord's new game of coastal warfare, Cruel Seas . In the ...

The sub-title for this book is "The Tragic History of the Kurds' - very apt as this is indeed a tragic history. I suspect like most...

The starter set for Warlord's latest game, Cruel Seas, arrived last week. Painting is pretty straightforward, grey with some highlights ...

I was in Manchester for Fulham's away game at Old Trafford last Saturday. We will pass quickly over the game, but it was an opportunity ...

Having visited museums all over the world, I was somewhat embarrassed to remember that I hadn't visited my local regimental museum for m...

'A World on Fire' is the latest novel from James Heneage. This is a time shift from his Byzantium books to the Greek War of Independ...

I have not had a lot of time for painting in recent weeks and the primed House Clegane Mountain Men have been staring at me across the paint...

Time for one last visit before catching the train home from London - The new Anglo-Saxon exhibition at the British Library. The Library...

Back to the British Museum yesterday for the new special exhibition on the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal. King Ashurbanipal ruled Assyria 669...