Balkan Wargamer

 This biography of Emperor Leopold I (1640-1705) by John Spielman is not a new book but one I picked up during one of my recent second-hand ...

 My bedtime reading remains in the Adriatic of the Napoleonic Wars. The latest is from Dewey Lambdin, an author I had never heard of, whose ...

 I wanted to add the air combat dimension to my Turkish WW2 scenarios. My first thought was Wings of Glory, but it is difficult to get hold ...

 This month's book from my local library was Amazons by John Man. Sub-titled The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World , he looks at ...

 This is the latest in Osprey's 'Combat' series by Stephen Turnbull. I have been sceptical about this and similar series becaus...

 This is the latest in Dan Mersey's 'Rampant' series of fast play wargame rules published by Osprey Games. They are aimed at sci...

 This is the latest in the Osprey Elite series by David Greentree. Over the century, they probably justified being in the Elite series, alth...

 This is a new book by Jon Lewis on the Macedonian (often called the Salonica) Campaign of WW1. My bookcases already groan with books on th...

After my Yorkshire castle tour, and drove down the road to York today for the first big show of the year, Vapnartak. The grandstand at the r...

 I am en route to York for the Vapnartak wargames show on Sunday. I decided to stop at some Yorkshire castles I hadn't visited for some ...

 As if the title of this book by Julian Stockwin needed to be more for purchase - it is based on Sir William Hoste's Adriatic campaign ...