Wood Michael. In Search of the Trojan War

A Plume Book, 1985. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0-452-25960-6.Was there ever an actual seige of the "windy, well-walled" Bronze Age bastion known as Troy? Did Homer's titanic heroes — Agamemnon, Paris, Achilles, and the legendary beauty, Helen — ever inhabit the great palaces of Pylos and Mycenae? Or were the larger-than-life characters of the Iliad merely the fanciful creations of a romantic bard? Could a decade of bitter, brutal warfare truly have ended with the creation of a massive wooden horse?
For 3000 years, tales of Troy and its towering heroes have fired the human imagination. And now, with the publication of In Search of the Trojan War, the timeless epic continues. In this real-life archaeological adventure of dazzling treasure and buried history, of magnificent heroes and bold explorers, Michael Wood brings vividly to life the legend and lore of the Heroic Age — and sifts through both the spectacle and the speculation to provide us with a privileged view of the riches and reality that were ancient Troy.The Search for Troy.
Heinrich Schliemann.
The Coming of the Greeks.
Homer: The Singer of Tales.
Agamemnon's Empire.
A Forgotten Empire: The Hittites and the Greeks.
The Peoples of the Sea.
Conclusions: The End of the Bronze Age.