Balkan Wargamer

My latest bedtime fiction reading is Decebal Triumphant by Peter Jaska. This is the story of the early wars (85 – 99 A.D.) between the Roma...

 This is Colin Turbett's new book that seeks to give us a new angle on the Cold War, focusing on the stories of the people who were imp...

 I am delighted that my new book, ' Chasing the Soft Underbelly: Turkey and the Second World War ', is now on sale, and at a special...

 A bumper crop of new books from Osprey this month is disrupting my reading pile. This one from William Hiestand covers another obscure WW2...

 This is a new book from Osprey in their campaign series by Angus Konstam that looks at the naval actions around the German attack on Crete...

This is Sam Mustafa's new WW2 naval game. It's his attempt to balance gruelling simulations and fantasy-like abstractions. I am gene...

 This is Lawrence Durrell's story of his time in Cyprus before and during the early days of the EOKA campaign during 1953-56. A bit of b...

 This new book by Si Sheppard in the Osprey Combat series looks at the Gallipoli and Palestine campaigns of WW1.  My immediate reaction to ...

 My latest bedtime reading is a novel by Roger Malone, Island at the Edge of War . The setting is the Adriatic island of Korcula, or Curzola...

 My latest bedtime reading is yet another Napoleonic naval adventure, although not the Adriatic for a change. It's a wonder I don't ...

The added attraction of a visit to the Hammerhead wargames show is the Newark Air Museum, which is almost next door. They have two main hang...

 I made my first visit to the Hammerhead wargames show at Newark Showground yesterday. I went a bit further than I would usually travel for ...