Balkan Wargamer

No, that isn't a typo, it is 1953. Many people will be familiar with the race for Trieste at the end of the Second World War. However, t...

Prince Lajos Windischgraetz was a Hungarian magnate who witnessed many of the great events in the Habsburg Monarchy before and during the Fi...

SS Colonel Eugen Dollmann was the Rome based interpreter who linked together the German-Italian axis during the Second World War. He was pre...

Yesterday I moved on twenty years or so historically and visited some of the Boer War battlefields. Starting with Talana Hill in Dundee. E...

I spent today touring the battlefields of the early part of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. This morning we followed Chelmsford's invasion...

I am in Cape Town for a work conference and escaped for an hour or two to visit the military history sights. The Castle of Good Hope was b...

Like most wargamers, my understanding of the Zulu army doesn't extend much before or past the 1879 Zulu War. This book by Jonathan Suthe...

My latest pre-South Africa trip reading covers John Laband's book on the Transvaal Campaign of 1880-81, often called the First Boer War,...

Alexander Mladenov and pals have written a history of the Bulgarian Air Force in the Second World War, published by Helion. The Bulgari...

I have tried to see this museum a few times, but the queues have always been ridiculous. However, today I was in good time for a meeting at ...