Rear Guard Action

This can be a very short post as I didn't do anything in terms of gaming goals. Yup, not one block changed colour this October. I di...

It's been two and a half fascinating weeks. First ten days travelling through western Thailand in the footsteps of the 100.000 POWs who ...

There’s weird connections in your brain, ya know? Stuff that apparently has nothing to do with each other but makes sense because it all ca...

Had a nice trip cycling from Woerden via Oudewater and Montfoort to Vleuten. Not only was it a beautiful sunny day, but this is classic pold...

Made a quick snap of the U-434 in.Hamburg harbour. It's a former Soviet sub , built in 1976 and was used mainly for intelligence operati...

Cycled through a neighbourhood celebrating the German heroes of unification this morning. Others streets were named after Roon, Waldersee an...

Last week I brought Some books for Michiel, since he's going to camp around Compiegne in France this summer. Right in the middle of a nu...

On May 9th 1915, the monument was christened for the 1,000 redshirts that accompanied Garibaldi on his trip to Sicily in 1860, beginning the...

The Alpini are the Italian elite mountain troops. They earned their distinctions during the mountain battles of WWI, but also elsewhere in W...

The Carabinieri Genovese were formed in 1851 as a rifle association. The club was heavily influenced by the desire for Italian unity and m...

Another fine painting from the Wolfsonia collection in Nervi. Close to the outbreak of WWII, this shows Mussolini at the helm (it's ca...

This painting from the Wolfsonia collection in Genova-Nervi shows how the Futurist obsession with movement and action perfectly fitted fasci...

This bust is displayed at the Risorgimento museum in Genova. It's an old school museum in transition, now having some multimedia displ...

A painting by Alba Giuppone from 1942-3 called Donne in tempo di guerra from the Galeria d'Arte Moderne in Genova-Nervi. Nervi, a form...

The S Matteo church was the private church of the Doria family, as can be seen from the eagle motives next to the door. Inside is buried A...

This momument was erected around 1890 in Tortona to commemorate those fallen in the Risorgimento battles. The period spans from 1848 to 18...

Memorial for the Vicenza division that served on the Eastern Front, 1941-43.

The UJ-126 Steiermark was sunk near Terschelling on 10 July 1940 by British submarine H-31

Apparently a panel controlling emergency pumps on the German cruiser Lützow which was sunk during the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Picture t...

Made by royal foundries in Brussels in 1623, by Johannes Sithoff. Probably captured by the Dutch and then used as naval gun. Ship probabl...