A rather good piece on the Teutoburg massacre from The Blue Review. The author, Peter McDermott has talked to the great and the good: Tony Clunn and Peter Heather for example. He also has kind words to say about me:
In "Rome''s Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoberg Forest,"
often cited as the best English-language book on the episode,
Adrian Murdoch writes that "the search for the actual site had
become a cross between the quest for the Holy Grail and a
cottage industry. Both academics and interested parties put
forward some 700 theories that placed the battle pretty much
everywhere in northern Germany..."
Chatting over a coffee at the Kalkriese Museum, its discover
Clunn said: "There were 700 pins in a map. Anybody who was
anybody, the whole landed gentry, said it happened in their
backyard or in their town." The town of Detmold, near the
Hermannsdenkmal 70 kilometers to the south, made especially
strong claims.
"I think it''s fantastic," commented Heather, who teaches at
King''s College London. "I think it''s just an extraordinary story that
this site has come up and been identified. Everybody in the 19th
century had been putting it in the wrong place."
You can read the full article here.
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