Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative GamerDespite the title, this isn’t focused on Radetzky. (But it is a great take off of Johann Strauss’ celebration of the campaign.) At the start of 1848, revolution swept through Paris—again. And this time, much of the rest of Europe[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stephen Douglas was a very able speaker and politician on what turned out to be the losing side of history, is mostly remembered for being Abraham Lincoln’s foil (or more properly, the other way around). Enough so, that basic history[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I picked this book up mostly for the reproductions of a series of sketches of the California Missions. In 1856 they were already largely abandoned, and would soon decay into a ruined state (and by the text, this had already[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, with the title and subtitle, my original thought that this would be a look at draconic culture where power politics flows around and through the aspects of mating, and you know, not getting killed in the world. I was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is an expansive history of about sixty years, across a fair amount of space. It’s also a fairly limited history, largely confined to what “white people” were doing. This is, in large part, man-vs-nature history, with strange people coming[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the fourteenth in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Europa Universalis IV. See the previous reviews here: Europa Universalis IV: A Fantastic Point of View Wealth of Nations: National Trade Res Publica: A Tradition of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Howl’s Moving Castle series are all independent books; you can read them separately without any trouble. Howl and Sophie are secondary characters in this third and last installment, as the focus is squarely on a new character, and new[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The main problem with study of the Mexican-American War is that it is severely overshadowed by the later Civil War. Instead of struggling against the problem, this book embraces it, tracing the careers of several prominent ACW generals through this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, lets start by setting expectations: The advertising blurb mentions ‘the life of Archimedes’, suggesting a big, dense, fictional biography via novel. No, this is a tight fairly plot-focused lighter novel taking place over maybe a single year (probably not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This book gave me a bad impression early on when the introduction states, “All the land taken from Mexico, historians now acknowledge, could have been acquired peacefully through diplomacy and deliberate negotiation of financial recompense.” That’s a rather big pill[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…