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Caroline Alexander is an American author, classicist and filmmaker. She is the author of the best-selling Skies of Thunder, The Endurance, The Bounty, and other works of literary non-fiction, such as The Way to Xanadu and The War that Killed Achilles.
May 14, 2024 · In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in China.
About the Author. Caroline Alexander was born in Florida to British parents and has lived in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. She studied philosophy and theology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and has a doctorate in classics from Columbia University.
A New York Times Editors’ Choice book about the deadly World War II mission over the Himalayas. The author explores the challenges, feats, and conflicts of the Allied pilots and soldiers who flew the Hump in the China-Burma-India theater.
Sep 15, 2003 · Caroline Alexander focusses on the court martial of the ten mutineers captured in Tahiti and brought to justice in Portsmouth. Each figure emerges as a richly drawn character caught up in a drama that may well end on the gallows.
Sep 13, 2016 · “[T]he guard has changed, and a new gold standard has appeared, a 2015 translation by Caroline Alexander.… [Alexander] is a grandmaster of restoration, delivering the Iliad unembellished, faithful to the Greek, and uniquely accessible. Her translation itself promises to be ageless and immortal.”
Oct 24, 2009 · Homer's epic poem "The Iliad" dates back thousands of years, but author Caroline Alexander says its themes, especially about war, ring true today. Guy Raz talks to Alexander about her new book...
