Harry "Woody" Lockwood is stationed in Germany as a member of a tank force. He is injured when he unwittingly crashes his tank into a train. Although he is deeply in love with Jenny, who waits back in Scotland for him to come home. While he is mending from his injuries, Harry finds himself feeling a bit torn and starts to picture himself with Shirley, a past love from school days. Through it all, however, he remains tied to Jenny. When Harry gets a glorified leave to go home to England for the Christmas holiday he falls deeper in love with his sweet Jenny.

Coming back from his holiday, but still on leave, he crosses paths with "Captain" Martin Bulman who is a 2nd Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps. Harry has always had a bond with Captain, who has been his best friend through school and now in the military. He and Captain decide to go on a ski trip and that is when Captain gets kidnapped.

Harry gets involved with the intelligence corps because he knows Captain better than most. Time is expensive and deadly, with the beast known as Spielman moving Captain behind enemy lines, first into Austria and then to a castle in Czechoslovakia. Harry and another officer, Colonel Cortland, must mobilize and move fast in order to save Captain who is being used as bait, although the real reason behind his kidnapping is not revealed until later in the story.

Meanwhile, Captain is getting inside the head of a torturer named Fraulein Kellerman, who the reader will come to know as Kristy, when she has a change of heart and saves Captain’s life. Kristy and Captain have many battles to go through before they can move forward, should they each make it out of the predicament that threatens their lives.

This book will make you put other things down so you might finish reading the story, and all the while you are reading you will be hoping for a good outcome. We all know that lots of people lost their lives as spies during this time, and it is not really hard too imagine the angst that accompanies having a person you love missing in the middle of unknown situations during a war.

Another Kind of War is a gripping book that will take you on a ride back to a time when things were more innocent and not as brutal, in some ways, as they are today. However, don’t let that stop you from seeing the relevance to today’s world of war and espionage.

I can’t wait to read Harry’s War. I am a fan of Bradley He paints a gentle look back at a war that many of us remember, as well as the Cold War that followed; this was a time when we grew up, as a nation and as a people.