Balkan Wargamer

This is a bit left-field for this blog as I don't normally read much in the way of crime novels. However, 'The Mask of Dimitrios...

 Steve Barber Models have been expanding their range of 28mm figures for the 1848 Hungarian Uprising. I have been dabbling at skirmish leve...

  'Zulu Frontiersman ' is the edited memoirs of George Dennison who served in a variety of colonial units in South Africa at the end...

Any Bernard Cornwell book is a reason to cancel all engagements and just read it. However, the conclusion of The Last Kingdom series is a do...

Helmet Mahlke trained as a naval aviator expecting to serve on Germany's planned Zeppelin aircraft carrier. Instead, his unit was trans...

 This book by Anthony Tucker-Jones covers the invasion of Southern France in 1944, originally called Operation Anvil until changed to Operat...

 This is the latest in the Osprey Men at Arms series by Gabriele Esposito covering the little known Italian-Turkish War 1911-12. The Kingdom...

 My painting activity in the last fortnight has focused on upgrading my Indian and Pakistani forces for the 1971 conflict. The 1971 war deve...

This is a weighty book by John Blair, which looks at the latest archaeological evidence on the built environment and the inhabitants of Angl...

The Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) are best known for trekking around the western desert in jeeps and trucks, guiding raiding parties and ga...

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...