Balkan Wargamer

Yesterday's trip across Crete took us to the Palace of Knossos, the centre of the Minoan civilisation. This is the number one attracti...

Sfakia is the most remote and mountainous region of Crete. Until recent times there was no proper road into the region, which allowed the lo...

Today I retraced the key actions of the Battle for Crete in 1941, from Maleme Airfield to Souda Bay. I started at the Tavronitis River whi...

I am holidaying in Crete for a week, based in the attractive port of Rethymno on the north coast of the Greek island. Probably as far south...

Wild Europe by Bozidar Jezernik is a study of the Balkans in the gaze of western travellers from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centu...

The Italians for my Yugoslavia invasion project are now completed. Most unlike me, two weeks before the Carronade show - no hair dryer requi...