Inside GMT Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerMurray 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…
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…
This is a decent book with good high concept. However, it did not entirely grab me. The major problem is that Sears is trying to keep track of nearly everyone in the Army of the Potomac from brigadier general on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As a crusading force moving into hostile lands, castles were essential for the Teutonic Order’s survival in Prussia. Undeveloped and swampy, there was only a limited amount of stone available, which all went to building foundations. Naturally, early castles were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, 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…