``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.
In the process, she reveals the intended theme of Homer\'s masterwork-the tragic lessons of war and its enduring devastation..
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 That lets us see its True power. ``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
