Inside GMT Flash of Steel Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsElting’s history of the Grand Armee of Napoleonic France is justly well regarded. It’s a massive tome that dives into just about every aspect of one of the most successful armies of military history. The main problem is that it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This second volume of Bryant’s series on the Napoleonic era was published in 1945 (commonly given as 1944, but he mentions “the events of 1939-1945” in his preface), and he has no qualms about drawing a parallel to Britain’s experience[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I picked up this book for cheap some time ago, and I’m quite happy to have finally gotten to it. This is definitely on the “layman’s” side of military history, but he does a very good job with it. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chandler’s massive tome on every campaign Napoleon conducted makes a great one-stop shop for a basic military history of any action you may want to look up. This is aided by lucid accounts all the way through, good maps (which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
David A. Bell tackles a fairly big concept in a merely moderate-sized book. The main thesis is that warfare underwent a profound change at the end of the Eighteenth Century that still drives how we think of it today. Now,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of Osprey’s free offers as the pandemic began, this was an unexpected acquisition for me. I’m not up on the US’s Indian Wars at all, other than a few bits of brief outline. I was certainly aware of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second volume of Sumption’s massive, and excellent history of the Hundred Years War covers just over twenty years, from 1347 to 1369. The first volume ended with the siege of Calais, which the English ended up occupying for 212[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a popular history of the first half of the Napoleonic Era written during 1941. The author’s introduction is interesting, as his main purpose is to remind the British public that they’ve fought a Europe united under a hostile[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I picked this up for cheap on Kindle some time ago, and meant to get to it a lot sooner than this. Especially as its part of an interesting period as our perception of how the world works. Winchester is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Too often, brief looks at the Conquest start at Stamford Bridge and end at Hastings. Well, this isn’t a brief look. Morris starts with nearly a century’s worth of Anglo-Saxon politics, including the fact that much of Anglo-Saxon “England” had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…