Balkan Wargamer

The Fortress by Alexander Watson is the story of the fortified city of Przemyśl in the First World War. Today, it lies in the south-eastern...

I have always been interested in the Norwegian campaign of May 1940, and I suspect it will attract new interest as the 80th-anniversary appr...

Sword of Kings is the latest in Bernard Cornwell's Last Kingdom series. This follows the fictional story of Uhtred of Bebbenburg and h...

For a confirmed landlubber, I do seem to be playing a lot of naval games recently. Cruel Seas started the trend and now a shiny new box has ...

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...