Hot Blood & Cold Steel

Tag: World War II

  • Operation Sealion: A Military Appreciation

    Operation Sealion: A Military Appreciation

    The next megagame I’m going to is Don’t Panic a what if scenario on Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Britain in the autumn of 1940. I’m going to be the British Control. So no playing for me. However that doesn’t mean that I can’t look at how I would plan the Operation Sealion…

  • For Fuhrer and Fatherland: SS Murder and Mayhem in Wartime Britain

    This was the first time I have read a prisoner of war story involving Germans as the POWs, apart from having read the official history of British Intelligence in WW2 (which only dealt with the captured German spies). I have, however read lots about the prisoners of the Germans. It was interesting that security in…

  • Allies at Dieppe – 4 Commando and the US Rangers by Will Fowler

    This is an excellent history of a small unit action set in the wider context of the war, and well explained for those not steeped in military history or the second world war. IWM caption : THE DIEPPE RAID, 19 AUGUST 1942 Lt Col The Lord Lovat, CO of No. 4 Commando, at Newhaven after…

  • Book Review – Blitzkrieg Legend

    Book Review – Blitzkrieg Legend

    A book review of Bltzkrieg Legend, the German Army official history of the 1940 Campaign in the West

  • Battle of the Hills, 21 January 1943

    This is a short article about the advance of the 51st Highland Division in Tunisia in the follow up from El Alamein. I wrote this to be played as a tabletop wargame.

  • Tank Tracks, Peter Beale

    This is the story of 9 RTR in WW2 written by one of its officers and including material from many of the survivors and contemporary diaries, including the battalion war diary, the brigade history and at one point the radio logs. It is packed with a wealth of material, much of which is directly quoted from a primary…