Balkan Wargamer

 This is the operational history of the German Army Brigade 191, known as the 'Buffalo Brigade', written by one of its members, Brun...

This is Richard Landwehr's study of the siege of Budapest with a focus on what he calls 'the backbone of the defensive effort', ...

 This is Michael Feather's short study of the Royal Navy frigate HMS Amphion , which served during the Napoleonic wars. He has looked at...

 I have read most of James Holland's history books, but his historical fiction has passed me by. However, I saw this book in his Jack Ta...

 I have been indulging in some background reading for my Adriatic project. The first book was Jim Potts' The Ionian Islands and Epirus ....

 This is a new look at NATO and Warsaw Pact tanks during the height of the Cold War, written by the premier tankie, Steven Zaloga. I started...

 Dumfries Aviation Museum is located on the site of the former RAF Dumfries, on the outskirts of Dumfries. It's a small museum run by a ...

 Henry Hyde's long-awaited tome on wargame campaigns has, at last, crashed through the letterbox. Well, actually, it was too big for the...

 This book covers the memoirs of Lieutenant John Hildebrand 35th Foot in the Mediterranean and Waterloo Campaigns, edited by Gareth Glover. ...

 This book by Graham Robb is about a stretch of land on the England/Scotland border called the Debatable Land . For several centuries this d...

I needed a book for a couple of flights and a layover this week. I have been reading many military history books about the Pakistan-India co...

 I have been looking at a little-covered episode in the Napoleonic Wars, the presence of a significant Russian fleet in the Mediterranean, s...

The second major museum trip on my visit to Sweden this week was to Flygvapenmuseum, the Swedish Air Force Museum near Linkoping, over two h...

I am in Sweden for a few days on a work trip, so I flew in early for the weekend. I did all the Stockholm museums on my last visit just befo...