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Helen of Troy by Margaret George book review

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 Helen of Troy  By Margaret George (2006) (800 pages Kindle Digital Edition) Rating : 2/5  Genres : Historical,  Mythology,  Greeks, Trojan war. WARNING!!! STAY AWAY FROM THIS PIECE OF DESPICABLE WORK !!  The worst book on the Trojan war I have come across!! 🤢🤢🤢 I stopped reading and decided to shelve this at 50 percent of the book.(I am glad I didn't splurge money on buying a hardcopy like I initially intended to!)  It is an understatement to say that I am just disappointed! I feel cheated and played. I had such high hopes for this! Having read her 'Memoirs of Cleopatra', I wanted to get dragged hopelessly into the world of ancient Greece and get a new look at this most retold old tale. Such books are like fiction within fiction - because the existence of Helen and the occurrence of Trojan War could have been artistic creations of Homer. The intricate details within the story are the added speculation,fantasy - adding layers and putting pieces of p...