He joined the British Army and found himself working on a training exercise when things went wrong...

Jacky's Battlefield (Topliners)

Nick McCarty

Children's Books

Macmillan and Co.

The Iliad

History

Ancient Civilizations

scholastic

<p>This is a story of war. It is also the story of one man's dream. It is a story from the deepest past, and yet it is a story as close to us as the wind. The narrative of the epic is set in the period around 1250BC, shortly before the Mycenaean civilization of the Mediterranean began to crumble and city states such as Thebes, Knossus and Tiryns fell victim to a period when settled life broke down. It took centuries to rebuild the glory that had been lost. It was a true dark age, but through travelling storytellers and the oral tradition, the stories of old heroes and gods, among them tales of the siege of Troy, were kept alive. For centuries scholars believed that both the place depicted and the events in the epic were mere fables. It took an unscholarly German indigo salesman to make the connection between the text of The Iliad, as written down by Homer, and the truth. He discovered a site of an ancient city that could have been the real Troy.</p>

Troy The Myth and Reality Behind the Epic Legend

Barnes_and_Noble

Troy

In a life of ceaseless exploration, Marco Polo pushed out the borders of his narrow medieval world. When his father returned from a trading expedition his great tales of the court of the Kublai Khan in China ignited a lifelong passion for adventure in the young 15 year-old boy. In 1271, the Polos set out in a journey of four years throughout China. Kublai Khan took a great liking to Marco Polo, employing him as a spy throughout his vast empire. He traveled and observed the cultures of Sumatra, Sri Lanka, and India in this capacity. His notes later became one of the world's great travel books, The Description of the World.

Marco Polo: El hombre que viajo por el mundo medieval / Marco Polo: The Boy Who Traveled the Medieval World (World History Biographies) (Spanish Edition)

Biographies

Altea

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