The Single Handed Admiral

I picked this up in Waterstone's in Chichester.  It's a mark of how busy our trip was that we were in the UK for 18 days before se...

I picked this up at the Canterbury Cathedral shop.  Excellent read and food for thought with lots of gaming possibilities.  Ok knights h...

http://www.historydata.com/images/graphics/Rd_Rivoli.jpg This week I've been reading "The Road to Rivoli" by Martin Boycott-...

A belated shout out to Tim Gow over the publication of his Little Cold War rules ( available as a real book or an ebook ).  In keeping with...

I got taken in by Cyber Monday this week with a BOGO (buy one get one free) sale on E-books over at Pen and Sword , typically my go to push...

Fridaynight was board game night.  First up was Chariotteer (aka Formula I) run by Curt.  Curt (the bastard) drugged my horses which hobb...

Ok so currently I am reading Anthony Beevor's history of the Spanish Cicil War. Highly recommended - a good read and good history a...

Most years I tend to get some very good history books for Christmas, and 2013 was no exception.  Two are highly recommended. The third I hav...

So the recent Hail Caesar game got me thinking more about my ancient (mid 80s) greek armies.  I could have sworn that I had a bag of left o...

I got my PDF copy of Battlefleet by email this week and I thought I'd give a shout out to a couple of fellow bloggers involved in this...

We did a quick family clear out of the book shelves yesterday.  Fear not no books were harmed in this process - a few were marked to donate...

I spend 3 days at the Actuarial Research Conference in Winterpeg last week.  Unusually for a conference it was within driving distance (590...

Earlier this week I finished Robert Malcomson's A Capital in Flames. This books is highly recommended- great details ...

Highly recommended, a very coherent account of a not so coherent action! Worth the read but not in the same league as the Graves...

The War of 1812 is luring me with a siren call.  I'm back to painting Perry plastic Napoleonics as the 49th Foot (the Green Tigers) and...

With the living space occupied by kitchen furniture and the basement cleared to allow for the table saw, there's no space for modelling ...