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A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes is a story about what happens to the survivors of ancient warfare. It is harsh, tragic, and sorrowful. The survivors, in this story women, but can easily be anyone, are cast into slavery, menial and sexual. There is no difference between those who were royalty or beggars. They all become the lowest of the low.
The story coveys well that war is not only fighting on the battlefield. It is also a story of the results, what the warriors leave behind. It delves into both the home front as well as the oppositions landscape. Though this story is set in ancient Greece, it can just as easily be transferred into modern life and any war that has gone on in recent centuries or now.
When the warriors go to battle, what takes happens to “the women in the shadows”, “the forgotten, the ignored, the untold”? This book covers well that “a war does not ignore half the people whose lives it touches”. War touches everyone, never in a good way.
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes is a story about what happens to the survivors of ancient warfare. It is harsh, tragic, and sorrowful. The survivors, in this story women, but can easily be anyone, are cast into slavery, menial and sexual. There is no difference between those who were royalty or beggars. They all become the lowest of the low.
The story coveys well that war is not only fighting on the battlefield. It is also a story of the results, what the warriors leave behind. It delves into both the home front as well as the oppositions landscape. Though this story is set in ancient Greece, it can just as easily be transferred into modern life and any war that has gone on in recent centuries or now.
When the warriors go to battle, what takes happens to “the women in the shadows”, “the forgotten, the ignored, the untold”? This book covers well that “a war does not ignore half the people whose lives it touches”. War touches everyone, never in a good way.