Balkan Wargamer

 We hired a car yesterday and did a grand tour of Kos. Well, not so grand as the island isn't that big at 45km long. However, for the Du...

 This is a new title in the Osprey Essential Histories series by Michael Lynch. It covers a less well-known conflict and is the correct le...

We left Kos yesterday on the ferry for Bodrum on the Turkish coast. For me, the highlight was the  Castle of St. Peter built by the Knights ...

We are staying on the Greek island of Kos this week. One of the Dodecanese Islands is a stone's throw from Turkey, or these days potenti...

 I popped into the annual exhibition of my local model railway club last weekend. I am always impressed by the standard of modelling and gra...

 I found this book in a second-hand bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, which intrigued me because I knew very little about the French side of Operation...

 This book is Samuel Marquis's take on the Western Desert campaign in WW2. Technically it is historical fiction, although I would descri...

 This is a new Osprey by Raffaele D'Amato on the Roman army in the east during the 3rd century AD. This is the period after the 50 year...

 Books on the Ottomans during the Napoleonic wars are a bit like buses. First, nothing for ages, then two come along at once! Well, not quit...