Books, Films, Military history

Napoleonic TV – Captain Coignet

Found a nice old gem from youtube the other day, a French Canadian co-production of the life and adventures of Capitaine Jean Roch Coignet Grenadier de la Garde Impériale. This is a dramatisation of the notebooks of a napoleonic guardsman, who served all the way through from the Italian Campaign of 1800 to Waterloo in 1815. The production quality and …


Films

Classic Bomber Command TV series

Pathfinders – The Complete Series [DVD][1972] The British have always been able to make top-notch gritty war drama. One of my favourites was the 1970s TV series “Pathfinders”. I remember wathching it with my dad from our tiny black and white TV. I was overjoyed to find it is again available in DVD. What better way for a gentleman gamer …


Classic Polish WW2 tank TV drama

One of the good things of growing up in neutral Finland during the Cold War was our national TV station’s obligation to offer us politically balanced entertainment. One of the things I enjoyed watching as a child was the classic Polish TV serial “Czterej pancerni i pies” or “Four tankists and a dog”. On Finnish TV it was called “Panssaripartio” …