Balkan Wargamer

I was at the Leeds wargame show (Fiasco) in the conference hall of the brilliant Royal Armouries Museum. So you get a wargame show and the m...

This is the latest  Chasing the Soft Underbelly  scenario testing game played at the club on Sunday. Thanks to Graeme for indulging me in th...

 My library pick this month was Killing Patton by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. I'm not a big fan of conspiracy theories, which i...

 This is Simon Berton's book on the WW2 dealings between Churchill, Eisenhower and de Gaulle. My interest in the French and WW2 was stim...

This is the Russian official history of the 1805 campaign that culminated in the Battle of Austerlitz. As someone who struggles with foreign...

I am delighted that my new book has a cover and an indicative publication date of next month.  Chasing the Soft Underbelly: Turkey and the ...

 This is Michael Khodarkovsky's study of Russia's colonial empire in the south between 1500 and 1800. This is a book that the curren...

 This new book covers the edited wartime diaries of Stanley Christopherson, DSO MC TD, by James Holland. I hadn't been rushing to read t...

 This is Dan Jones' first go at writing historical fiction. He has written some excellent medieval history books and is an engaging TV p...

 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...