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 GamerI’ve been a bit leery of Osprey’s “Combat” series, since it’s impossible not to think ‘pirate vs. ninja’, or ‘Enterprise vs. Death Star’ when looking at their titles. But their recent electronic book giveaway included one of the more interesting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is Osprey’s third book looking at the most emblematic part of Japan’s military history (starting with the 1979 Men-at-Arms Samurai Armies, to the 1989 Elite The Samurai, to this 1994 Warrior book), and it still manages to miss a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
First, I must express a certain amount of disappointment. Osprey’s Men-at-Arms series has a number of good books on medieval military history of various countries. These are generally in two volumes, one covering 1000-1300, and the second 1300-1500. That Poland[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cavalry has nearly always been the prestige arm in the military, so the Osprey Elite book on the Sassanian empire is indeed focused on the ‘elite’ branch of their military. It does also touch on the rest of it, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another book bought because of non-selective Kindle sale buying. And a worthwhile one as it turns out. This is a fairly interesting look at the highest level of British society at the end of the 18th Century. As a biography,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Henry 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…