Balkan Wargamer

 This is the wartime memoir of Arthur Aldridge, an RAF pilot who flew the Bristol Beaufort torpedo bomber, although it could also carry a bo...

 The last stop on our family and friends road trip was Chester. This city has a long history, best known as the Roman town of Deva, of which...

We have been on what used to be pre-pandemic, an annual road trip to visit friends and family in England. This includes a few stops of inter...

'Frigates!' cried Nelson, 'Were I to die this moment, want of frigates would be found engraved on my heart!' The frigate wa...

 My copy of the new edition of Lion Rampant thudded onto the door mat yesterday. I say thudded because this is a weightier tome than the ori...

 This is the fourth of Andy Johnson's WW2 novels. I absolutely loved his f irst book Seelöwe Nord , which assumed that Operation Sea Li...

 I have long thought the Indo-Pakistan wars deserve more attention. Helion Books obviously believe the same as they keep feeding my interest...

 This is Peter Caddick-Adams' study of the final campaign of WW2 in western Europe from the perspective of Allied land forces. My late w...

I was off to Edinburgh today for the Claymore show, the only Scottish wargame show that has survived this year. As always, well organised by...

 Many years ago, I worked through most Napoleonic naval fiction writers, from C.S Forester to, probably my favourite, Douglas Reeman (Alexan...

 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...