Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerOkay, lets just start with the fact that this far from the most engaging book I’ve read. It is by no means poorly-written, and it is well organized and presented. But, I’m no hurry to go through it all again.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This volume is a little different than most Osprey Campaign books, because it’s really about more than one campaign. In some senses it’s even about more than one war. But only in fairly limited senses. Mostly, this is about one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ada Palmer’s title doesn’t cover everything that’s in this book. In fact, what the book covers is probably too large for any one title, and it is to her credit that it isn’t too large for any one book. First[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve read a good number of history books over the years, and I thought I’d take the time to list my recommendations of some of the best of the best I’ve come across, with links to my fuller reviews. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is basically three works under one cover, as the sections on the three most well-known Confederate Ranger leaders are all independent of each other. There’s no general section on rangers, or their employment by less-successful leaders to tie things[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is difficult for a general history to maintain a central thesis and remain informative, and be entertaining. One of Catton’s gifts is that he does it quite well here. Terrible Swift Sword picks up in the immediate aftermath of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I accidentally bought this from Osprey in the ePub format, and confirmed my suspicion that that is a poor choice for the heavily illustrated Osprey books. If you want electronic format, for them I recommend PDF so that the formatting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a 1925 book. I got it for cheap at one point through Diversion Books, but it’s available through Project Gutenberg as well. In fact, the latter appears to be in better shape, with proper linking to footnotes, which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s hard to say there’s too many books about Abraham Lincoln, but there certainly are an awful lot of them. Doris Kearns Goodwin manages a slight of hand to emerge from the pack by spreading her net to the four[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you read up on the start of the Civil War, you will doubtless come across the fact that Lincoln ended up sneaking into Washington DC before his inauguration. This is after he is presented evidence that an attempt will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…