Balkan Wargamer

The latest pandemic measures in Scotland means face to face gaming in the house is on hold for the present, so it's back to Zoom. Just a...

 This is Alan Mikhail's new book about Selim 1, sometimes known as Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute, the Ottoman Sultan from 1512 to...

This is Mark Simmons’ take on the story of Agent Cicero, who was arguably Germany’s most successful spy in WW2. Cicero was the code name for...

 I am a bit behind on the painting schedule having spent a very pleasant week away in the Lake District. However, the first Afghan tribesmen...

 This is the first in Max Hennessy's fictional series on the Goff family. It is set in the second half of the 19th century and the hero ...

 This is a book by Lawrence Cline that I picked up on my visit to Canada last year. It covers the Fenian Brotherhood's invasion of Canad...

 This is another book that has been sitting on my 'to read' shelf for some time. Edited by Peter Tsouras, he uses a number of studie...

 Rob Anderson and Mark Fry have written this supplement ('Libertad' is 'freedom' in English) for the Blitzkrieg Commander ru...

 A bit of a break from WW2 with a book that has been sitting on my reading shelf for some time. Not that I wasn't interested, it's j...

My painting this week has been focused on the 1943 reinforcements for the Turkish Army - my latest project in 15mm.  Operation Hardihood was...

 This 1973 book by Edward Weisband is probably not one for the general reader. In fact, my copy was released by an American college library ...

 This year is the 80th anniversary of the Norway campaign of 1940. Sometimes forgotten in the light of the invasion of France, and it was th...

 The small amount of painting I managed this week finished off the early war period Turkish army. This was a French 75mm field gun and a Ger...