Balkan Wargamer

 The final book in Nigel Tranter's trilogy covering the rule of James V deals with the conflict with Henry VIII of England, known as the...

 Writing the HMS Ambuscade book interested me in the broader development of navies since the Second World War. This book by Bruce Watson c...

 My new book, HMS Ambuscade: From 1746 to the Present Day , is launched today. It is unusual for me not to have any Balkan links in a book; ...

 I was in Manchester last week, and in between the cricket and the football, I visited a few museums, including a return to the Lancashire F...

 When you think about the USAAF in WW2, you rarely think about the Mediterranean. However, it was here that many American pilots learned the...

 This is the second in Nigel Tranter's trilogy covering the reign of James V of Scotland. James is coming out of his infancy and prepari...

This is Jonathan Davies' new study of the epic sieges of Rhodes. Often overshadowed by the later Siege of Malta, these Ottoman sieges o...

 This is the first of a trilogy by Tranter covering the reign of James V. Yes, the last book was also during this period, but I am reading ...

 Yesterday was the Claymore show in Edinburgh, one of two big shows held in Scotland. The venue is the Granton Campus of Edinburgh College, ...

 My Persian Napoleonic rabbit hole in the Southern Caucasus led me to wonder how Russia got into the North Caucasus. Then I came across a re...

 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...