Rear Guard Action

Another couple of books I read the past moths were triggered by plans for some medieval wargaming. Somebody suggested that we should try the...

So I'm on for a new adventure, starting in October. I'll be cooperating on a part of a larger series of handbooks about Dutch milita...

Ok, just a small step back to one of the books about colonial wars I posted on some time ago . I follow the excellent podcast series New Boo...

Yesterday visited the Crisis wargames show in Antwerp. Others have made more extensive reports on the show, so I'll not try to compete. ...

The bazooka vs panzer book whetted my appetite for some more WWII western front stuff (I still have that 20mm US army miniatures hanging a...

After a couple of colonial contests, I was happy to shift to World War Two. I had been intreagued by the match up between the bazooka and G...

Even when I was young, we didn’t play Cowboys & Indians any more and Westerns have declined as a movie theme. But despite the relative ...

Got a bit frustrated with my lack of reading lately and so decided to take on some lighter stuff, and Ospreys have proven excellent in that...

This is a very nice book on a forgotten colonial war that the Netherlands started without good reason and only ended with the arrival of a...

Fascinating book. Most of the women in this book were highly dedicated to Hitler and his ideas. Magda Goebbels married the 'next best...

I referred to this beautiful book last Sunday . A year's worth of a German geographical magazine. Not only is is 145 years old, it ...

Rarely have I been so disappointed in a historian that I held in high regard as by Jeremy Black’s Slavery . A New Global History . There a...

First a note to my English readers: by exception this post is partly in Dutch. A translation is provided below. Niet vaak dat je zo...

Hard to figure out where to start on this one. Still stuck in a WTF feeling, to be honest. Because Satan has been scary this year. Very scar...

First book read this year! Chance encounter in 2nd hand. Very readable military autobiography of early 19th century. Koch was born in...

Also in, this great book on the Dutch army under the Kingdom of Holland. This period was the last step between the foundation of a Batavian ...

If you read military histories of the revolutionary war, the focus tends to be on the campaigns against the British, and you might conclude...

Quite some time since I last picked up the paintbrush, but I cleared up some space on a table so I can leave it where it is and have a good ...

Having been gifted a few book coupons, I ordered a few books off my wishlist. The book on the Grande Armée in Germany has been on the list ...

(AWI project retrospective, part 9) I wrote this post at the end of an evening where I had based my prospective army for the big battle. I...