Recent book haul

Evidence that I am still into wargaming (or at least military history) has been piling up. The wargaming side of life has been very quiet lately. It only struck me in the last couple of days that my evenings and large parts of weekends have been taken up with a walking, witness the number of posts on the matter.

This really started with lockdown, when it became more pleasant to walk with less traffic then became more of a habit.  A dodgy knee a couple of months back meant that running was out. And then around late June the missus and I decided that we both needed to lose a few kilos so the walking stepped up a pace so to speak. As well as obsessional attention to the calorie counting app. And walking takes up a lot of time as a means of expenditures by energy.

Added to that the pool I like to use reopened, and then a couple of short trips away (with more walking, swimming off Lincs and Dorset beaches and a bit of cycling*).  Wargames-related time took a bit of a knock, though I did get through the two booklets below whilst in the second trip.

* nothing to match Mr Freitag’s efforts of course. I haven’t got my bike legs yet.

The booklets from Caliver are old school printed and photocopied sheets stapled together. But what they lack in presentation they more than make up for in quality of material. Excellent stuff and I’ve still got Barratt’s booklet on Langport to come.

The Abram book on Brereton’s Cheshire Army has all the makings of being a cracker. Much like the Helion companion book on Essex’s Army. I’ve only just started reading it (time limited by on-going exercise regime and a return to work) but I know I’m going to enjoy it. And learn a lot.

The Barratt book on Newbury only arrived today but also looks a good’un. Question is what do I read first, that or the Brereton book?

Also on order is Barratt’s book on the Royalist army, Cavaliers which I think I may have had from the library before. If so, it’s another excellent book. One which got me determined to ‘do’ the ECW.

Right I must get on. I’ve got some reading to do.