Balkan Wargamer

 This is the second in Christopher Nicole's historical fiction Partisan series set in Yugoslavia during WW2.  Despite the first in the s...

 This is Brian Davies' study of Catherine the Great's war against the Ottoman Empire. Yes, there are a lot of Russo-Turkish Wars, an...

 This is the fourth in the Arrows of Albion  historical fiction series by Jonathan Lunn. It is set in the War of the Breton Succession (1341...

 I blame the Netflix series Ertugrul! If you are not familiar with this mega, and I mean mega, Turkish historical drama, it follows the life...

 I have been reading Volume 5 of the late Sir Michael Howard's history of British Intelligence in the Second World War . This volume foc...

 A friend wanted to play A Fistful of Lead in this week's Zoom game. If you have read my review of these rules, they make for a good q...

 This is the first of a trilogy of historical fiction books by Bob Low, based on the Scottish Borders. After his series on the Vikings and t...

 On a visit before Christmas, my daughter took a rare interest in my bookshelves (she is a microbiologist). The question followed, 'do y...

 I have been reading Michael Paradowski's new book,  Despite Destruction, Misery and Privations: The Polish Army in Prussia During the W...

 Happy New Year! Well, 2020 was certainly different. Precious little face to face gaming and no shows for me after York in February. We adap...

 I took a day off writing this week to play a game of Bloody Big Battles. An elegant ruleset that I should play more often allows battles t...

 With my daughter glued to her Nintendo Switch and my wife tackling a Chrismas jigsaw, I had control of the remote on Xmas Day. So, it was M...

 The war in Syria may have been largely missing from our TV screens, but the conflict's misery is very real for Syrians. In this book, J...

 My wargaming pals at the club have played a lot of the skirmish game, Fistful of Lead, during the various stages of lockdown that have halt...