This is something of a first.  Instead of reviewing the books I want to focus on the author.   David Morgan died in 2019 but left be...

I've added a link to my latest book review to the articles page . It's a review of Stephen English's paperback "The ...

As regular readers will have noticed, I am busy building an Arab Conquest army for Art de la Guerre (ADLG).  However, not all of this p...

I've recently finished John Keegan's 2010 History of the American Civil War (ACW) which I picked up from one of my local charit...

If you look above this post, on the blog itself not the RSS feed , you'll see that the menu bar has a new item entitled Booksho...

At the end of September I posted an article about the above . I was very pleased to get a reasonably "historical" flag for my Tra...

Regular readers may have spotted that I’m contemplating painting a Transylvanian ally for use with an Early German Protestant army for the ...

This post has under gone a significant update following a reply from the publisher. Read the update ...

This book was meant to form part of my Christmas reading but I gave in and started it early.  In some ways I wish I hadn’t.  I’m just over o...

I've added a link to my latest Miniature Wargames review to the articles page . It's a review of the latest book from Pen ...

More second hand reading finds: Here are my one sentence reviews: "The Full Monty" is a whopping 780 pages excluding...

Here's the latest additions to my library: Unusually for me these were purchased new and were read one after the other in very shor...

I started this year reading books on an old theme: the Western Desert in WWII. As it turned out I read two very different books. Panzer Comm...

I've mainly been reading non-fiction for the last few weeks and I finally got round to yet more of the my "to be read sometime...

I've been following a very useful board on Pinterest: The term "Indo-Persian armor" includes armor from Persia, Ottoman Em...

I've had a free print subscription to Saudi Aramco World for quite a few years now. It often contains articles of historical int...

Jona Lendering runs a truly special web site called Livius full of great articles about ancient history.  In 2010 he was awarded ...

George Nafziger has donated his well respected Collection to the Combined Arms Research Library (CARL).  CARL is part of the US Army Comman...

I was drawn to an article in today’s Daily Telegraph because it dealt with one of my favourite periods in history: the Wars of the ...

Regular readers will know that I play wargames using DBMM written by Phil Barker.  What you may not know is that he’s recently issued a set ...