This is a close look at about fifteen years that changed much of the structures of Europe in a popular history format. In a way, it is “Here I Stand the book”, though it only covers a fraction of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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With any good story, it can be hard to manage to make the things that made it work function just as well again. That is, “sequelitis”. With a fresh start, you can do something different, but with a sequel, you’re[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is part one of a massive five-volume history of the Hundred Years War. As such, it spends a good amount of time setting the stage, and covers through Crecy and the siege of Callais. The first chapter is an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve enjoyed Honsinger’s Man of War series as a fairly typical energetic military-SF series borrowing from the Age of Sail literary series. My main disappointment with the series is that it halts at a dramatic moment, and the sequel series[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As ever, Osprey has produced another good book looking outside of the usual Anglophone center of western Europe. The general focus in this volume is the Russian response to the Mongol conquest. There’s the usual pair of decent maps showing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lord Cochrane is one of the primary inspirations for the various literary Age-of-Sail sea captains, that have been a tradition since the early Nineteenth Century. As such, you’d expect that he’d be well known. But at the same time he[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Long ago, my Dad recommended the novel Sword at Sunset to me. Before I ever got around to it, I found out that it was part of a series of novels Rosemary Sutcliff wrote about Roman and post-Roman Britain. So,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I picked this up when there was a Kindle sale on Thomas Costain books a bit ago. I hadn’t been aware of him writing a series on Canada, and it turns out the reason is he didn’t. This is the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, in parts, this is well-trodden fantasy ground. You have an order of warriors dedicated to fighting demons. You have a scrappy girl who prefers martial pursuits to marital ones. She joins the aforesaid order in disguise because girls aren’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is another Andre Norton that I’m sure I read ages ago, but don’t have any clear memories of anymore. This is the first of the “High Hallack” Witch World novels, which I always generally enjoyed more than the Estcarp[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…