Balkan Wargamer

 Last September, I reviewed Jim Ring's book , Hitler's War in the Alps , which started me down the rabbit hole of Switzerland and WW...

 The latest in my Nigel Tranter re-reading project is set during James VI's reign, although we have now moved into his adult reign. The ...

 There have been many general studies of the armies of this period, but now the Athenian Army has a stand-alone Osprey by Nick Sekunda. For...

 The Dodecanese campaign has been the subject of many books, but they tend to focus on the land and naval aspects. The air war is often brus...

 Books on Cyprus written by Greek or Turkish Cypriots are rarely objective. I have a collection of them, often including pages of text in ca...

 My library pick last month was Lucy Ward's book, The Empress and the English Doctor. While not my usual military history fare, Catheri...

 My current bedtime reading is Cypria , a history of Cyprus by Alex Christofi. It reminded me of a little-known excursion Richard the Lionhe...

A Happy New Year to everyone! The weather has somewhat curtailed Hogmanay celebrations in Scotland, but a dram or two were still raised. My ...

 This new book by Nigel Smith covers the armies of the Hungarian War of Independence 1848-49. I was pulled into this conflict through Steve...

 This is a new Osprey MAA on the North Korean and Chinese ground forces in the Korean War by Benjamin Lai and Zhao Guoxing. There is an old ...

 This is the tenth book in Matthew Harffy's Bernicia Chronicles , which follows our hero Beobrand and his warband around 7th-century Bri...

 The latest in my Nigel Tranter project covers the period after the Battle of Langside in 1568 when Mary Queen of Scots fled to England, and...

 A new and an older book has scratched an itch for a side project on a what-if clash between Bulgaria and Turkey during the early Cold War p...

 As if I need more books on Gallipoli, this was my thought when faced with more at the Gallipoli Association's stall at the Battleground...

 Strength and Honour (S&H) is my favourite ruleset for big battles in the ancient world. One of my wargaming pals finds this ironic as h...