Balkan Wargamer

This book is Alex Rowson's examination of the early life of Alexander the Great, from his birth to the invasion of the Persian Empire. M...

 I am delighted that my new book, The Frontier Sea: The Napoleonic Wars in the Adriatic, is now on sale. It can be ordered through your loc...

  Hellfire is the latest in my bedtime reading of James Holland's Jack Tanner series. After Crete, Jack ends up Cairo, and the Yorks Ra...

 The second part of my Korean War project has made progress with the painting of my North Korean and Chinese forces. Or at least enough to ...

 This is James Waterson's take on Vlad the Impaler and the wars in the Balkans during and after his lifetime. I must have missed this wh...

This is the second volume in  Helion's  study of the war in Ukraine. It is challenging to write about an ongoing conflict, not least bec...

 I was in the Lake District two weeks ago on our annual family holiday there. There is little historical interest, but I visit a few second-...

 I gave in to these rules at Salute, even though I am not a big fan of Westerns, but I only got around to playing them today. I admire the L...

 My latest wargame project is the Turkish force that fought in the Korean War. I would prefer to do this in 28mm using the Warlord figures. ...

 This book is another in James Holland's fictional WW2 series, featuring Jack Tanner, the Wiltshire NCO serving in the Yorkshire Ranger...

 This is Neil Churches' book covering his father Ralph's extraordinary WW2 escape from a PoW camp in Slovenia. I don't usually ...

 I fear the Vandals have got the worst of historical reputations when their name is now widely used to describe anti-social behaviour. After...

 This is Mark Galeotti's detailed look at the development of the Russian army in the Putin era and the wars they have fought. Mark has w...

 On my way out of Portsmouth last week, I called into the Royal Armouries Museum of Artillery at Fort Nelson. The fort is built on a ridge o...