Bruce Catton’s history of the Army of the Potomac was the start of his ACW writing career, and his foreword is a favorite part of mine. He talks of growing up in Michigan, a bit over a century ago now,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I don’t follow Osprey Publishing very closely, but it seems evident that they went out of their way to get some experts in regions you don’t hear much about in English, and team them up with their regular authors to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This isn’t quite a history for the War 1812, though it lies behind much of the book. Taylor starts by pointing out that Britain maintained that a subject was created by birth (inside the Empire), and nothing could remove that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Augustan Rome, without Augustus. That is, he is conveniently out of town for the entirety of the novel, which involves portions of Roman high society and government. And we do have a number of historical people here, I think including[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a bit of a meta children’s book, as it is also about writing itself. Even at the surface level, this is true as our main character’s mom is a world-famous children’s author. But also at an allegorical level,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tom Holland’s third book on the history of Rome picks up with the end of Nero’s reign (65 CE). This is the start of four chapters labeled “War”. Now, there’s various problems, certainly including Nero himself, but there’s no war.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Murray Dahm bucks the general organization of Osprey’s Campaign series with this book on the Battle of Leuctra. Notably, main section does not give one big description of the course of the battle; instead we get a fairly brief version[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
R.A. MacAvoy’s Damiano alternates between philosophy and travelogue. Set in a fantasy version of the Italian Renaissance, Damiano receives the call to adventure when his city/town is taken by condottiere with ambitions. As, basically, the leading citizen, he attempts to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Island No. 10 is a campaign you’ll occasionally hear about in the ACW, but not one that ever really gets to be the focus of the action. There’s a few reasons for this, I imagine. It’s in the West. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The second volume of Osprey’s look at castles of the Teutonic Knights deals with Livonia, and actually covers activities before the Knights got involved. Namely the stone castle of Uexkull is built around 1185 to support the first bishop of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…