I made the mistake of browsing the excellent  Pen and Sword website recently and in due course three books arrived in the post (trans-Atlan...

  The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl, by Alexander Watson, New York: Basic Books, 2020.   This is not as long a book review as my ...

  Jonathan Fennell, Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War (Cambridge UP, 2019), 932 pages....

Not a lot of gaming or painting getting done of late.  I have my head down trying to generate the first draft of my MA thesis in time to mee...

One of my wargaming heroes is Chris Stoesen - blogger , historian, researcher, scenario writer and all around good egg can now add novelist ...

    I magine my delight to find this book in a local used book store, for a quite decent price.   I read it once as an undergrad and thoug...

  Just a quick plug of a book review I just put on my other blog (aka the God Blog) of a fantastic book about a British Army Medical Offi...

  Deborah J. Shepherd, Daily Life in Arthurian Britain  (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood/ ABC-CLIO, 2013, ISBN 978-0-313-33295-1).  Here’s a...

Douglas Delaney, The Soldier’s General: Bert Hoffmeister at War. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2005. Among the papers I inherited from my dad is hi...

What I'm Reading: Harry Pearson, Achtung Schweinhund! A Boy's Own Story of Imaginary Combat (London: Little, Brown, 2007). If you ...

Anne Rice, Christ the Lord Out of Egypt (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005). What do Harry Potter (especially in the first HP novel) and Jes...

Cormac McCarthy's The Road (New York: Random House/Vintage, 2006). Something in us dreams of our own destruction. Perhaps it is the sp...

Victor Davis Hanson's A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Pelopennesian War (New York: Random House, 2005). ...

Summer Book Blogging Project The Rev'd Canon Dr. Kendall Harmon's blog Titus ONE Nine ran a wonderful post recently describing a sum...

Some years back a relative mailed me a copy of this book, thinking that the content about American Civil War reenacting would be of interest...