Balkan Wargamer

This is the second in the prolific historical fiction author Griff Hosker's Lord Edward's Archer series. I thoroughly enjoyed the ...

Any mention of Ukraine at present inevitably focuses on President Trump's impeachment for withholding military aid until Ukraine's P...

I have managed a fair amount of painting over the holidays, although I have been a bit of butterfly, hopping between projects. One project I...

My Christmas fiction reading has been ‘Birthright’ by Ethan Jones.  The setting is late 11 th  century Ireland and North Wales. O...

Happy New Year to everyone. This is where I look back on the previous year and plan projects for the new year. My lead pile hasn't ...

2019 was another fruitful year for books, and I am pleased to see that sales of the printed word have increased this year. In particular, I...

To most of us, Neville Chamberlain was a posh Tory Prime Minister who thought he could secure peace through appeasement with Hitler. Well, ...

The next stage in my Soviet Bolt Action force, to take on the late-war Hungarians, was a choice of AFV. I was tempted to repaint a spare She...

Since the end of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe books, I have missed a good series of Napoleonic historical fiction. It is now 13 years sin...

I was in urgent need of some distraction this weekend. For those reading this from outside the UK, the country has justed voted for a buffoo...

Outwith the Balkans, I am always drawn to a new book about Carthage. It was my very first wargame army, although, like most wargamers, it w...

In this month's BBC History Magazine, Caitlin Green tells an interesting story of a journey made by post-Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxon ex...

My work is taking every waking hour of my life at present, and a few of the sleeping ones as well. So, I decided I needed a day’s break fro...

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 ...