Balkan Wargamer

 Two trips to finish the holiday. On Saturday, we travelled down the coast from Marmaris to the ancient city of Amos. It was an hour's d...

 This is a new title in the Osprey Campaign series by Grant Harward. While Romania's role as a German ally against the Soviet Union has...

 Yesterday, we took a ferry from Marmaris to Rhodes. Although it's only an hour away, the trip takes nearly three hours each way, thanks...

 Reading Jim Ring's book   Hitler's War in the Alps prompted me to discover more about the Italian invasion of France in 1940. For ...

 Yesterday we drove a couple of hours from our base near Marmaris to the ancient city of Knidos situated at Cape Tekir, on the Datça Peninsu...

 In Marmaris itself there is really only one historical site worth visiting - the castle.  Herodotus tells us that the first city walls in M...

I am writing this as I look out on Marmaris Bay in Turkey. This city in modern-day Türkiye has a lot of historical interest, but the descent...

This book by Jim Ring covers Hitler's War in the Alps, although it actually covers all the combatants. I picked this up in a second-hand...