Rear Guard Action

Well, since I've started to celebrate my followers, I've picked up a new one every week, so let's keep going!Newly enlisted #39 ...

After my extensive post yesterday, I wondered if perhaps the burden of command was heavier in the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars than in ...

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

Nice! Another new follower: #38 Phyllion, a gaming magpie , with a steady brush and an interest in ancient Greek warfare .. Wh...

Spare me the lame attempts at humour based on national stereotypes. Even if they claim to aim for the opposite. Stephen Clarke´s 1000 Years ...

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

This seems to be what I will be doing in my spare time for the next year and a half. Me, and my buddy who just finished a biography of W...

I feel I've been very fortunate this last couple of weeks since the holidays.  Not only did I attract lots of hits (by my standards) but...

In yesterday's post I made a reference to Gary Gygax, major Von Reiswitz and Phil Barker. I'll explain, as promised. More about...

It's all very tempting to look back these days. There was 100 years of H.G. Wells' Little Wars , then Willem Schoppen, the ´Dutch Do...