Rear Guard Action

Reading Roger Parkinson´s biography of Marshal Blücher I was confronted, more than in other military biographies, by the physical and emoti...

This book is very well written: the story flows, with anecdotes sprinkled liberally but always in the service of the characterisation of the...

Die Eisfestung by Gabriele Hoffmann is a nice piece of history writing in accessible German. It fits in well with the other very reada...

I went to Hamburg last week and was well intentioned to drop money on some books on the Befreiungskriege in 1813 as a context for the Water...

"My, my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender Oh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar way The history book on the shelf ...

Given the 200 year anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig Megagames Nederland will be running Master of Europe , a megagame designed by Brian ...