Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsOsprey’s various medieval armies Men-At-Arms books are generally solid, and this one does not disappoint. It’s not spectacular, either. The main thrust of the text is that Scandinavia lagged behind West European fashion/technology. Denmark of course, had lots of influence[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is my second book of “The Peoples of Europe” series, and I was surprised to find it was brand new. Turns out it was done via print-on-demand at the time of purchase, but is otherwise the 2004 printing (including[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a slightly earlier book than Hughes’ works on the end of the Western Empire. Unfortunately, the main way this shows is that the Kindle edition has problems. This seems to be an OCR translation to ebook as there’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Gillian Bradshaw is one of my favorite historical authors, and this one does not disappoint. She admits up front to distorting the timeline slightly in the interests of the plot, which spans about seven critical years in the Fourth Century.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Andrew Roberts spared no effort in writing a new biography of Napoleon. He spent a lot of time with the archives, toured many of the sites of Napoleon’s battles (the vast majority of them, in fact), and just spent a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second book of the Paladin’s Legacy series is structured much like the first: Five different threads with only limited mobility between them flowing through the entire book. This is the type of thing can can get on my nerves[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
William Doyle is one of the leading English-language experts on the French Revolution, and his book from Oxford University Press is what you’d expect: A concise, clear overview of about three decades in France, concentrating on 1788 through 1799. Having[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The third book of Protector of the Small continues to be a notable improvement over Song of the Lioness. Interestingly, it begins and ends with the Chamber of the Ordeal; the Ordeal itself isn’t so much, but it’s presence is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the quotes from the back of my second edition copy is “…if you believe in drowning freshmen in significant works, then by all means drown them in this one.” Which is pretty much how I got it, as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a prequel to Jensen’s Malediction Trilogy, and as such I recommend you read that first. And I do, indeed, recommend that you read the trilogy, it’s quite good. This book is up to the general standard of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…