3 Civil Wars

It's been pretty quiet on the wargaming front recently, apart from participating in one of Jonathan Freitag's Mortimers Cross games. You've probably already seen the AAR on Jon's blog, but if not I recommend having a read.

Screenshot of one of the early turns. Lancastrians in the foreground.

End of the road for the Yorkists

Anyway, back to Spain. My son reawakened a dormant interest of mine a few week back when he gave me the book below for Father's Day. I started reading it about a week ago (it's a big book). I'm currently 18 chapters in out of 52. I don't know how it stacks up in historiographical terms, but I'm enjoying reading it. It certainly doesn't pull any punches.

Early on fellow Grimbarian Tom Wintringham popped up (we're a Bolshie lot). Interesting bloke, being an early advocate for setting up the Home Guard (as in 1938 earl). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wintringham

Wintringham is in the middle, looking a bit like Mr Lah-di-dah Gunner Graham with his 'Huniversity Heducation'. "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" reference.

Oh, and the third civil war is the one we had over here in the 17th century. Ralphus of the Wars of Louis XIV blog has flagged up another worthy listen. Cavalier Cast. Here's the Podbean website for an episode they did on wargaming the Civil War. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-nbkgv-1802ea54 And while I'm on the Pike and Shot theme, here's an excellent episode of Citizen to Soldier podcast https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-citizens-to-soldiers-podca-5889375/episodes/episode-8-patrick-wyman-on-rai-230406209 They mostly cover contemporary military matters but now and again they delve into history.