In Search Of The Trojan War by Michael Wood (BBC Worldwide, £12.99)
ONCE again, Michael Wood explores in depth the world of those who walked in the dawn of the first great civilisations.
Starting with Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the role of the early European explorers is examined in depth, charting their obsession with the mythical Troy.
The chapter on the arrival of the Greeks examines the evidence, both written and archaeological, and then it is the turn of the Hittites and Egyptians to come under the microscope.
Michael Wood has dug far below a hallowed sub-soil to unearth a time and civilisation so fabulous that even the gods on Mount Olympus must have looked upon it with awe.
John Phillpott
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