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 BootsThe city of Constantinople is best known for the ‘bookends’ of its founding as a capital for the newly-Christian Roman Empire, and its fall to the Muslim Ottomans over a millennium later. Following that would be its fall to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I will admit to not being a big fan of the Riftwar Saga. It certainly made a splash at the time, but I was unhappy with stretches of it, and have never had a desire to revisit it. However, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been a bit leery of Osprey’s “Combat” series, since it’s impossible not to think ‘pirate vs. ninja’, or ‘Enterprise vs. Death Star’ when looking at their titles. But their recent electronic book giveaway included one of the more interesting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is Osprey’s third book looking at the most emblematic part of Japan’s military history (starting with the 1979 Men-at-Arms Samurai Armies, to the 1989 Elite The Samurai, to this 1994 Warrior book), and it still manages to miss a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First, I must express a certain amount of disappointment. Osprey’s Men-at-Arms series has a number of good books on medieval military history of various countries. These are generally in two volumes, one covering 1000-1300, and the second 1300-1500. That Poland[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a four-in-one of a series of James Blish novels. They’re all in the same universe, but only get truly related to each other later. The first book, They Shall Have Stars, takes place in an early twenty-first century[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cavalry has nearly always been the prestige arm in the military, so the Osprey Elite book on the Sassanian empire is indeed focused on the ‘elite’ branch of their military. It does also touch on the rest of it, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another book bought because of non-selective Kindle sale buying. And a worthwhile one as it turns out. This is a fairly interesting look at the highest level of British society at the end of the 18th Century. As a biography,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The problem with shopping in used book stores is finding only the middle parts of series. However, it turned out that the fifth and final volume of de Camp’s Novarian books is a good place to start, because it picks[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Henry Tudor is a familiar name to students of English history, especially the military side of it. Henry VII is actually a less familiar figure, despite being the same person. So, a book on Henry VII’s reign seemed like a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…