Balkan Wargamer

Today is the 500th anniversary of the start of the Siege of Belgrade 1521. Although the most written about was the earlier siege of 1456 whe...

 Anders Lassen was a Danish merchant seaman stranded abroad when the Germans invaded his country. He joined the Free Danes and then voluntee...

  When researching my current book, I came across one of Churchill's wilder plans to send a Royal Navy fleet into the Black Sea.  Church...

 You get two for one in this review. The latest in my Nigel Tranter reread is Macbeth The King , Tranter's take on the 11th century King...

 On this day in 1381, Richard II and his entourage killed Wat Tyler, one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt at Smithfield in London....

 This is Simon Sebag Montefiore's epic study of the Russian imperial family from its accession to power in the early 17th century until ...

  My latest project has been the Bulgarian Army of WW2, inspired by a new range of 28mm figures from Great Escape Games . They have created ...

We were visiting family in Forfar on Saturday, and after an overnight stay in Anstruther, we stopped off at the pretty fishing village of Cr...

 The Galloway Hoard was discovered in 2014 at Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, which is in southwest Scotland. Deposited around 900AD, it is S...