A review by pearl35
March Upcountry by John Ringo, David Weber

3.0

With an extremely broad wink at Xenophon, Weber and Ringo have a lot of fun crash landing a spoiled playboy prince on a marginal jungle world with a battalion of space marines tasked with getting him safely home. Although they cheat a little by having convenient characters with unlikely special skills, this is mostly an excuse to explore how a crack unit without their high technology falls back on classic military training, and what happens when they encounter what seems to be the authors opening an anthropology textbook at random to decide their next contact (hey! a hunting and gathering tribe! oooh! a city state with a oligarchy!). Throw in pack dinosaurs and a pet dog lizard and it is enjoyable big loud space opera