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May 13, 2025

Review: Clouds Above the Hill Vol. II, Ryotaro Shiba

Rating: 5 out of 5 After some fifteen years, this is still very much one of my all time favourite books. Though Masaoka Shiki’s…

April 30, 2025

Review: Soviet Destroyers of World War II, Alexander Hill

Rating: 3 out of 5 Overall, this is a decent to good summary of the Soviet destroyers of the Second World War. The illustrations…

November 3, 2024

Review: The Teutonic Knights, Aleksander Pluskowski

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 It is always interesting to read a short general history: what an author consider noteworthy versus what one does…

August 1, 2024

Review: Huế 1968, Mark Bowden

Review: 4 out of 5 My knowledge about Vietnam and the Vietnam War was very patchy. This book looked like it would provide a…

April 3, 2024

Rocca d’Angera

Angera, the stronghold across the Maggiore from Arona, has been effectively repurposed into a tourist destination. Any ruins have been repaired and the great…

March 27, 2024

Rocca d’Arona

Of the things that one can remember from an old visit, the promise of walls stretching alongside the high cliffs of the beautiful Maggiore…

September 20, 2023

Review: Unustatud linnused, pühakojad ja piiskopid

Hinnang: 3 / 5 Unustatud kohad… nii on tõesti läinud paljude siin teoses välja toodud paikadega. Ja kuna siin vaadeldakse neid kohti, mille juurde…

December 18, 2022

Review: Colonial Forts of the Champlain and Hudson Valleys, Michael G. Laramie

It is rare for me to a find a book that is what it promises to be. “Colonial Forts” did this, and though the…

November 20, 2022

Review: The Fortress of Rhodes 1309-1522, Konstantin Nossov

Rating: 4 out of 5 I read this while preparing our visit of the Medieval heart of Rhodes, and while I found Mr Nossov’s…

November 6, 2022

Review: The Siege of Fort Beauséjour, 1755, Chris Hand

Rating: 5 out of 5 It’s not all that rare for me to say that I’ve found a really good book, but I often…

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