Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerHenry Tudor is a familiar name to students of English history, especially the military side of it. Henry VII is actually a less familiar figure, despite being the same person. So, a book on Henry VII’s reign seemed like a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The French and Indian War gets enough attention that I wasn’t sure I was in need of a book just on that part of the Seven Years War. Boy, was I wrong. Narratively, the focus is around events over several[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This has been on my to-read/to-get list long enough that I don’t remember just how it got there. Certainly in the period when I was looking a lot more at early Europe. It isn’t quite the book I’d been expecting,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Frederick II of Prussia is considered one of the great generals of history (which is why we usually just call him ‘Frederick the Great’), so a book looking at his military achievements is an excellent subject. Of course, it’s not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Eighteenth Century saw a series of wars in Europe, that led up to the more famous ones towards the end of that century. I’ve been wanting good books on all of these for some time. I’m still looking for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even if the title didn’t clue you in, Bradford wastes no time and pulls no punches letting you know what he thinks of the fall of Constantinople to the Fourth Crusade. He begins with the arrival of the Venetian fleet[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At first glance, this is just a new history of the start of Islam, and how the Arabs came to dominate such a large area, one of those parts of history that often defies analysis. And Holland loops this book[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The story of Persia vs the Greeks is one that has told many times over the centuries. Part of this is because we have some very good Greek sources about the conflict, so that we know more about these wars[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the Wars of the Roses, some much-needed stability started returning to the English court. Alison Weir starts her book with Henry VII’s negotiations with Ferdinand of Castile to marry his son Arthur to Ferdinand’s daughter Katherine. Nearly half of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, we’ve got a few different things going on here. Jack Weatherford is an anthropologist who has spent a lot of time in modern Mongolia, and has a much better grasp of Mongolian culture than anyone else who will write[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…