My two primary periods of focus are the Crusades through the Renaissances and then the World Wars and Cold War so I hear ya there. Yeah I keep thinking I need to get back to some of my history blogging, but lately time's not been on my side.

I love these periods because they're messy and complicated and not easily parsed. I'm big into the intelligence gathering parts of it all, how they developed, pitfalls and successes, that sort of thing.