Balkan Wargamer

I had partly read Thomas Pakenham's ' The Scramble for Africa ' when I visited South Africa last month. While making a start on ...

I thought I had read most, if not all, of the general histories of Balkan countries. However, I missed the third edition of Marcus Tanner...

This rather weighty tome by Paul Barford has been sitting on my 'to read' shelf for some time. For those interested in the history o...

Wargame projects inspired by my travels have a tendency to taper off as the memories of the visit dim. So, I kept a few books back to keep t...

I doubt if most people today who use the saying a 'Pyrrhic victory', have much idea about the 3rd Century King of Epirus whose victo...

Not a new book, but I recently picked up a copy of this Concord publication on the German siege of Sevastopol in 1941-42, by Hans Seidler. ...

This is a short supplement to my recent reviews of new books on the Dodecanese campaign of 1943. After the failure of the 1943 campaign...

We have two new books on the German conquest of the Dodecanese in 1943. Anthony Rogers has written a straightforward military history in his...

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...