The main participants, Odysseus, Achilles, Agamemnon, Hector, Helen well the list goes on…they are brought to life with all of their fears and doubts as well as the twin cornerstones of the conflict, pride and honor. This is the third volume in this series and we find our mythic heroes in the tenth year of the war with no end in sight. I must say at the outset that anytime an author can take a well known, pretty much been done every which way tale and imbue it with a knack of rekindling interest in the time worn saga, then said author has done something special.

For it's only through the strength of their golden warrior that the pride of the Trojans will finally fall. When Agamemnon angers the formidable Achilles, the battle for Troy seems doomed to failure. When Agamemnon is threatened with mutiny by a disillusioned army he changes his tactics, ordering a series of attacks on the allies of Troy, thus depriving the city of reinforcements, trade, and supplies-but even this cannot draw the Trojans out from behind their walls. Eperitus, captain of Odysseus' guards, is tormented by his own oath-to protect the very man who murdered his daughter. But while Agammenon is still determined to avenge himself upon Troy for the theft of Helen by Paris, they are all trapped by the oath that Odysseus created. Dispirited, bitter, and frustrated by the war, Odysseus and his men think lovingly of home. For it’s only through the strength of their golden warrior that the pride of the Trojans will finally fall.The siege of Troy is in its 10th year, in the third book continuing from King of Ithaca and The Gates of Troy The Greeks, with Achilles at their head, have inflicted numerous defeats on the Trojans, but Troy itself still stands.

When Agamemnon is threatened with mutiny by a disillusioned army he changes his tactics, ordering a series of attacks on the allies of Troy, thus depriving the city of reinforcements, trade, and supplies but even this cannot draw the Trojans out from behind their walls. Eperitus, captain of Odysseus’ guards, is tormented by his own oath to protect the very man who murdered his daughter.

But while Agammenon is still determined to avenge himself upon Troy for the theft of Helen by Paris, they are all trapped by the oath that Odysseus created. The siege of Troy is in its 10th year, in the third book continuing from King of Ithaca and The Gates of Troy The Greeks, with Achilles at their head, have inflicted numerous defeats on the Trojans, but Troy itself still stands.

The Armour of Achilles by Glyn Iliffe