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Caroline Alexander's The War That Killed Achilles is a remarkable re-telling of Homer's Illiad, the great anti-war poem of the Western world.

About the Author

Caroline Alexander is the author of The Mutiny on the Bounty and The Endurance, a book about Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. She writes for the New Yorker, National Geographic and Granta, among other publications. Born and educated in Britain, she now lives in the USA.