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Within its corridors you will find insight into the books I have written, the books I am writing and the books I am thinking about writing. It is also a place where I can offer insights into my favorite authors and – in the case of my game Conqueror: Fields of Victory – I can explain my rules and offer new variants. Scroll down or check the sidebar for my latest posts. Nonfiction: Walls of Men: A Military History of China 2500 B.C. to A.D. 2020 Long Live Death: The Keys to Victory in the Spanish Civil War Fiction: Three Weeks with…
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Every now and then, the question of whether Mormons can be considered Christians pops up. If you ask them, they’ll just point to the name they have given themselves: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “See? It says it right there.” Well, yes, but lots of the names people take are deceiving. The German Democratic Republic was neither democratic nor a republic but instead a client dictatorship under Soviet control. First Things has waded into the debate, and of course the Catholic Church made its opinion known back in 2001. The Church document is not a long read,…