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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Upon finishing this book, I felt the most curious sensation as though I had been grabbed by the scruff of the neck by an intoxicated Welsh Enoch Powell who then proceeded to deliver the most brilliant lecture on ancient history... Wilson & Blackett would not get past the electric fence of a university what with their bluff, unreconstructed, industrial heartland personas, but then, perhaps it can only be people like this who are capable of cutting through the concretion of sophistry that passes for knowledge in polite society. Could have done with one of those "editor" chappies though - their work reads like someone has taken a craft knife to several first drafts and randomly glued them together. Nevertheless, in "The Trojan War of 650 B.C.", they (ironically) tear down the ramshackle edifice of ancient history and reconstruct it in it's correct order. They throw down a direct challenge to the paradigm that has existed since the early nineteenth century and are unabashed at taking on that great panjandrum of Egyptology; Champollion. What emerges is a revalation: the actual flesh and blood identities and motivation of the real Trojan Warriors. This was nothing less, it turns out, than a war of the Egyptian succession that constituted the first great war of the superpowers when Rome was nought but a cluster of villages. More essential reading for anyone with an interest in ancient history and full marks for sticking up for Velikovsky! I have never heard a sceptical critique of Wilson & Blackett's work that ever rose above the "straw man" level of debate. One American archaeologist, writing on Amazon.com, takes them to task for writing in a "conversational" style rather than an academic one thereby rendering their work inadmissable, apparently. So, there you are then - it can't be true! Pathetic.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
the worst written book I've ever read. The content so astonishing I could hardly put it down, illuminates the cacophony of ancient history, sets out a new coherent timeline, illustrates the reading of hieroglyphs,hints at revelations to come. An extraordinary in depth work of scholarship with more on some pages than others take a whole[well written] book to explain.
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