Balkan Wargamer

  The Secret War is Max Hasting's look at spies, codes and guerillas, 1939-1945. Unfortunately, I missed this in my scan of books on in...

 It was my turn this week to choose the venue for our weekly day out. I choose Melrose in the Scottish Borders as it has plenty for my wife ...

 Two for one in reviews this week. I felt my understanding of Luftwaffe air operations in the eastern Mediterranean was a bit of a gap in my...

A couple of threads got me thinking about the prospects of a successful invasion of the Ottoman Empire during the Napoleonic period. Jonatha...

 This is the first of a series of historical fiction books by Jonathan Spencer set in the revolutionary wars before and during Napoleon'...

 The Indian military intervention in what was East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) is the subject of a new book by Ravi Rikhye in the Helion Asia@...

 On my way to watch some cricket at Old Trafford, I stopped off in Clitheroe to see the castle and then the Lancashire Fusiliers Museum in B...

 I do like an obscure conflict, and they don't come much more obscure than the Sino-Soviet border war of 1969. This is the subject of a ...

 This new book on the British intervention in the Egyptian campaign by Stuart Reid is revisiting an old friend for me. In 2008, I ran three ...