A New Kind of War

I wanted to like this more; I had read a lot of positive things about Price. I was also interested in this book because it supposedly featured Varus and Teutoburg Forest. The plot has a lot of twists and turns (good); there is a fair amount of old British military terminology that takes some getting used to (nowhere near as bad as Gravity's Rainbow), and the Roman angle was mostly thin window-dressing. I also found David Audley, P's ongoing protagonist, annoying and unappealing. I might try another, but definitely a mixed bag at best.

At the end of the Second World War in Europe various not very interesting things happen in Greece and Germany as a prelude to the Cold War. I thought there was going to be more Greece; if I had known there wasn't I might not have bothered.

I can't evaluate its excellence as a military thriller because I don't understand the genre well enough (I don't understand it at all).

SEL loves Price.

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