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 Grumble Jones Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsOne 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…
This was a difficult book for me. In general, an examination of food sources and consumption in the Revolutionary War era is a good topic. Personally, I found the treatment here not so good. One problem, of course, is I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Osprey’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…
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…