When this book arrived, I thought, well who is going to read a big book on battle formations, surely it will just be a bunch of diagrams. And to be honest, it is full of diagrams, but and it’s a big but, it is actually a fascinating read. The author goes into not only the […]
This is a great book for wargamers that struggle with pointing miniatures. Andy Singleton has written a few books on painting wargaming figures, I have his Early imperial Romans book, but this new book focussed on the Romans’ Northern enemies. Like the previous books, this is an easy y to rad and easy t follow […]
Like other books by Ilkka, this one took me a while to get through. Not because it is a hard read, but mainly because of the density of information provided in the book. Especially when it comes to the military campaigns of these two emperors who survived the third century issues. The book focusses on […]
The Byzantine Princess and the First Crusade Anna Komnene is one of the most curious figures in the history of an intriguing empire. A woman of extraordinary education and intellect, she was the only Byzantine female historian and one of the first and foremost historians in medieval Europe. Yet few people seem to know of […]
