Balkan Wargamer

 This book by Djordje Nikolić and Ognjan Petrović covers the Royal Yugoslav Air Force at war in 1941. While I can struggle with books on ai...

 This weekend (20/21 July) is the 50th anniversary of the Turkish military intervention on the island of Cyprus in July 1974.  The 1960 agre...

The latest in my Nigel Tranter re-reading project covers the period when James V was King of Scots. However, David Beaton was the real powe...

On 1 June 1679, a Covenanter force defeated government troops led by John Graham of Claverhouse at Drumclog in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. ...

 A work trip to Stirling yesterday included a meeting in Stirling castle, which makes an enjoyable change from the standard dull committee r...

We are in Teesside for a family funeral tomorrow, and a few spare hours this afternoon was an opportunity to visit the Museum of the Royal N...

 My latest project has been completed, at least for now. The Persian army of the Napoleonic period was inspired by Lawrence Kelly's book...