J ust like an old Fixx song one book leads to another. In the case of this book, 8 Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet ...

A lthough the First Chechen War (and perhaps the 2nd) is mostly thought of now (in wargaming circles, anyway) as an urban war, fought in the...

L ast night I wrapped up reading Claws of the Crab: Georgia and Armenia in Crisis by Stephen Brook. It had taken me a while ... work'...

L ast week I finished my latest dozen minis. It took a few days to find time to take pictures of them. Here they are! First up are six ex...

A bout two months ago I was honored to learn Rolf had made a pack miniatures named with my forum username (Kestrelia) and was sending me a f...

A t lunch today I finished reading my second book by Anna Politkovskaya, A Small Corner of Hell:Dispatches from Chechnya. Like the first ...

L ast week I reread Thomas Goltz's Georgia Diary . I don't usually reread books, but this one is particularly good and I was certai...