Things have changed for the better since I started wargaming in the 1970s. Information on your chosen armies was hard to come by. We were not just gamers but model soldier collectors and modellers, rules writers, and very amateur military historians. Getting the information you needed was part of the game. Knowing our military history was important; if we didn’t know what happened when and how, how could we take any period to the wargames table? We had to think for ourselves. Of course, in our ignorance, we often got it wrong, but we tried, we learned, and we enjoyed it all.
Thankfully now we can do most research without getting out of our chairs, Googling away to our hearts’ content. Military history books are being published at some speed by many publishers. Further, many memoirs and primary sources are now available, even as free downloads. With this background knowledge, we can discern good from bad, be they
