Dateline: Troy

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Summary: joe's review
Review: There was a king and a queen of Troy and they had a kid that was put to death when it was born,it did not die. He grow up and become the leader of Troy,than he went and fought the Greeks. It was call the Trojan war and Troy lost. They wanted even so they made a big horse filled with Troys men. They sent it to the Greeks castle as a present and they the Greeks took it in the castle.The man in the horse came out at night and killed all.
I would recommend this book to someone who likes Greek myths. If you like hard books this is the book for you with all of its hard names.If you like war books you may like this book.If you like all of the above this book is for you you would love it. It is also a good because it has things that are going on in the story on one side of the page and on the other there are things happening from the First World War to the Gulf War.
Even know my opinion of this piece of literature is I did not like it you I do not like these kind of books so if you do my opinion is you should get this book. Just because my opinion of the book is one thing does not mean you would not like it.

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Summary: I loved it
Review: This book got me interested in the Trojan War and made very thought-provoking and captivating comparisons between a world that *seems* very different, but really isn't. The "illustrations" are great. The idea of the tale is very beautifully presented. Read it! (That's not asking too much; its not frightfully long.)

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Summary: Dateline Troy
Review: This book is about how events over 1,000 years ago still occure in the news today. In the book Paul Fleishman recreates events of the Battle of Troy and finds clippings of newspaper articles that are similsr to the events. An example was during the Battle of Troy servants sacrificed cattle for Zeus so the Greeks could get an edge over the Trojans. The artical reads" Woman kills herself after war protest." As you can seeevents still make headlines about things similar to events that happened in the past. Overall I liked the book.

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Summary: Dateline: Troy
Review: This book is interesting in the comparison of the happenings in the Trojan War to articles in more current newspapers. It is an interesting concept, but, unfortunately, it is doomed to be a bit superficial. If you are looking for an involving story of the Trojan War, this isn't it. If you are looking to explain that the story of the Trojan War is relevant even now, this book does a nice job of pointing out the parallels.

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Summary: Good, but not great
Review: This book is interesting in the comparison of the happenings in the Trojan War to articles in more current newspapers. It is an interesting concept, but, unfortunately, it is doomed to be a bit superficial. If you are looking for an involving story of the Trojan War, this isn't it. If you are looking to explain that the story of the Trojan War is relevant even now, this book does a nice job of pointing out the parallels.