Wargaming Miscellany

I have just uploaded a new YouTube video to the Wargaming Miscellany YouTube channel about my visit to the Operation Dynamo Museum in Du...

I have had an interest in the Chaco War (9th September 1932 to 12th June 1935) for many years, and back in 1973 I acquired a copy of GDW...

I have just uploaded a new YouTube video to the Wargaming Miscellany YouTube channel . It lasts approximately six minutes. The video can...

As my regular blog readers will know, I have had an abiding interest in the Spainsh Civil War ever since I went to Spain on a package holida...

Further to my recent blog post about the First and Second Balkan Wars , I have put together a list of the main battles of each war. Battles...

The latest issue of the Victorian Military Society 's SOTQ (Soldiers of the Queen) was delivered on Saturday, and I have spent some of t...

The Feth-i Bülend was the name ship of a class of two Turkish ironclads built for the Ottoman Turkish navy between 1868 and 1874. The Feth-...

I happened to be watching THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, and was struck by the sound of the crew of the submarine singing the Soviet Union's ...

I am waiting for the delivery of my final order from Irregular Miniatures before I can add a Russian-style nineteenth army to my Belle Époqu...

I have recently been reading Edward Dicey’s first-person narrative about the Schleswig-Holstein War of 1864 - which he observed a at close h...

Back in September , I wrote a blog post that included images of some of the ships that were going to be featured in Antoine Vanner 's fo...

The latest addition to Antoine Vanner 's DAWLISH CHRONICLES was published yesterday ... just in time for Christmas! I have already boug...

These were not a homogeneous class of torpedo boat destroyers. They were built from 1895 onward to designs produced by the shipyards that bu...

The eight ships of the Astrae a-class of second-class protected cruisers were built for the Royal Navy in the period after the passing of th...

Having recently written a blog post about Antoine Vanner 's next book in the Dawlish Chronicles series, I decided to take a closer look...

I have been a fan of Antoine Vanner 's novels about Nicholas Dawlish - a later nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Royal Navy office...

Back in May, I gave a talk to the Monday Get Together group at Shrewsbury House , our local community centre. It was about THE SPANISH CIVIL...

Today marks the eightieth anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (VJ-Day). On this day, it seems appropriate to remember the epitaph that is ...

Today marks the 109th anniversary of the initial stages of the biggest naval battle of the Great War, the Battle of Jutland. Map showing th...

On 27th May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck was sunk by units of the Royal Navy. Bismarck. Prinz Eugen. She had left Germany in t...