Balkan Wargamer

This is a new Osprey publication in their Men-at-Arms series by Raffaele D'Amato. It covers the Normans who left Normandy to make their ...

The Greek-Turkish War of 1919-22 is often forgotten amongst the great conflicts of the period including the Balkan Wars and the First World ...

The Galatians are one of the lesser-known peoples of the Balkans in the ancient period. This may be because they had no written history of t...

 This week's Zoom game stuck with the War of 1812, but with a different set of rules. Sam Mustafa's Blucher is not the obvious choic...

This is the latest (No.7) in Matthew Harffy's Bernicia Chronicles series set in 7th century Britain. This is a good setting for historic...

 We are back to Zoom games due to the pandemic restrictions in Scotland. While this isn't as good as the real thing it does have the adv...

 This is a new paperback edition of Stevan Pavlowitch's book on The Second World War in Yugoslavia. The events before and particularly a...

As many of us have been glued to our TV screens this week as the US elections play out, it seemed an appropriate time to put in some work on...

 This is the first of series of historical novels by Christopher Nicole based in Yugoslavia during the German invasion in 1941. Needless to ...

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...