The war that killed Achilles: the true story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War 9780571258338, 0571258336

Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War: Dialogues on Tradition 9781350012684, 9781350012714, 9781350012707

In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer’s Iliad within the wider Trojan

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Hunter Killer: The True Story of the Drone Mission That Killed Anwar al-Awlaki 0451474872, 9780451474872

The firsthand account of the hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki—and the drone squadron that found him.   In Sep

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The War Nerd Iliad 9781627310642

The War Nerd takes on Homer in a new translation; a classic gory, funny, tragic story in today's language.

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The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War 9781501188510, 9781501188497, 2019019661, 2019022373, 1501188518

The unbelievable true story of the Cold War’s strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin

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The Pity of Achilles : Oral Style and the Unity of the Iliad 9780847686209, 0847686205, 9780847686216, 0847686213

An examination of how the major themes of the "Iliad" -Achilleus' "wrath", heroic values such a

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The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest 9781501143397

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True Stories of the Civil War 9781479404308

TRUE STORIES OF THE CIVIL WAR collects true tales of the Civil War, meticulously researched by Civil War authority Josep

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Pig Boats: The True Story of the Fighting Submarines of World War II

Overview: An authorized account dedicated to the valiant submariners of the U.S. Navy who lost their lives in World War

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The Trojan War as Military History 9781399094467, 1399094467

In The Trojan War as Military History, the author's starting point is the fact that the Iliad, notwithstanding the

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The Plantation at Prospect Hill: The True Story of the Overtons of Virginia and the War 1861 - 1865 1649902387, 9781649902382

The true story of one of the oldest plantations in central Virginia and the people that lived there over a span of centu

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