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The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legenda "but Homera (TM)s epic poem, Iliad, is devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a debilitating, waning ten-year campaign. The storya (TM)s focus is not on drama but on a bitter truth: both armies want nothing more than to stop fighting and go home. Achillesa "the electrifying hero who is Homera (TM)s brilliant creationa "quarrels with his commander, Agamemnon, but eventually return...

The dramatic events of the Trojan War are legenda "but Homera (TM)s epic poem, Iliad, is devoted entirely to a few mundane weeks at the end of a debilitating, waning ten-year campaign. The storya (TM)s focus is not on drama but on a bitter truth: both armies want nothing more than to stop fighting and go home. Achillesa "the electrifying hero who is Homera (TM)s brilliant creationa "quarrels with his commander, Agamemnon, but eventually return...

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Spectacular and constantly surprising." -Ken Burns Written with the authority of a scholar and the vigor of a bestselling narrative historian, The War That Killed Achilles is a superb and utterly timely presentation of one of the timeless stories of Western civilization. As she did in The Endurance and The Bounty, New York Times bestselling author Caroline Alexander has taken apart a narrative we think we know and put it back together in a way...

Drawing on previously unavailable sources, this riveting account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antarctica presents, for the first time, 150 images by Australian photographer Frank Hurley, whose stunning visual record of the ordeal was--amazingly--preserved. "National Geographic" feature.

In August 1914, renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. They came with in eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, "Endurance, " was trapped fast in the ice pack, and the crew was stranded on the floes. Their ordeal lasted for twenty grueling months, a...