Balkan Wargamer

 Sieges can be challenging to game on the tabletop. The sheer size of most sieges, the time scale and the forces involved conspire against a...

 This is a new book by Caroline Boggis-Rolfe covering the history of the lands around the Adriatic. Very timely for my Napoleonic Adriatic ...

 This is the ninth book in Matthew Harffy's historical fiction series, The Bernicia Chronicles, set in 7th-century Britain. Specifically...

  Border Wars is a 28mm border reiver skirmish wargame. It was a Kickstarter from Flags of War, and it should be available early in the New...

 The latest book in my re-read of Nigel Tranter novels is The Wallace . This is Tranter's story of one of the most iconic Scottish hero...

 Prince Potemkin is one of the most fascinating characters to emerge from Russian history. He popped up in my reading of Alexander Mikaberid...

  This is the latest Osprey Campaign  book  covering the destruction of the Russian Second Army at Tannenberg in 1914 by Michael McNally. Th...

 I made my first visit to the Battleground show in Stockton-on-Tees yesterday. It will not be the last. The venue is Durham University's...

 On my way to the Battlefront Show tomorrow, I visited the North East Land Sea & Air Museum (NELSAM). It sits on the former RAF Usworth...

 I am on something of a roll with Russian Napoleonics at present. Having finished Alexander Mikaberidze's new biography of Kutuzov, th...

 This appears to be the third volume in Ilkka Syvänne's epic military history of late Rome. Eight volumes so far. This volume covers 39...