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 GamerIan Hughes’ books on the period where the Western Empire dissolved into nothingness have been very good at providing a clearer picture of the process. I think this volume might be the best one of the lot. Like his earlier[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Grainger finds a way to focus in on some of the details of the early Hellenistic period by concentrating on the shortest-lived dynasty of the Successors, while arguing for its pivotal position in the period. I think he stretches the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a good look at the Revolutionary War in 1781 in a popular history style. It is marred by a click-bait title, and a blurb that really tries to oversell the subject (not in importance, but calling Yorktown ‘overlooked’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Alan Taylor admits straight-up in the introduction that he took a very expansive view of the subject of the first volume of Penguin’s History of the United States series. Geographically, he looks at all of North America, rather than just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This was recommended to me by someone who’s opinion I trust, so I expected a good book going in. It exceeded my expectations. Despite the title, this is not just an examination of the Battle of Agincourt. It occupies a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Purkiss’ history of the ECW was something of a slog for me to get through. The general idea as given is admirable: to look at the English Civil War as something that involved people, and see how various people were[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…