Troy A. Hill

At the heart of desert landscapes, once stood three giants, three builders' masterpieces, three symbols of all powerful civilizations: Carthage, Troy and Persepolis.

In this book Joachim Latacz turns the spotlight of modern research on the much-debated question of whether the wealthy city of Troy described by Homer in the Iliad was a poetic fiction or a memory of historical reality…

“Having travelled across Australia many, many times I always remember the miles in a car or truck or bus the fondest because I always had music on in the background to help paint the pictures of the landscape on my way through or had a set of headphones on in a greyhound bus heading to some musical adventure that I organised. These songs represent movement in wherever you go, you can always have music with you. So, whether you’re in a car just about to start a six-hour drive, or you are an interstate truck driver about to do a lot of miles, or you’ve simply just got a caravan on the back of your car and you’re driving until you feel like pulling over somewhere to take in a part of this incredible country, this album is perfect! This collection of songs played in a simple acoustic manner, some of them with my daughter, can help paint the picture while you are making your own memories out on the road somewhere, or you could be sitting at home dreaming up where to go next. I hope these songs give you some ideas of where to take those dreams. Please enjoy 50 Songs 50 Towns.”

Supergroup Gone Is Gone have announced details of their second album, If Everything Happens For A Reason… Then Nothing Really Matters At All. The follow-up to 2017’s debut album Echolocation will be released on December 4 via Clouds Hill. To mark today’s announcement, the band have released an official video for new track Breaks. Having been written and worked over the past three years, the 2020 lockdown allowed Gone Is Gone (Mastodon​’s Troy Sanders, QOTSA​’s Troy Van Leeuwen, At The Drive-In​’s Tony Hajjar and composer Mike Zarin) to fully commit and finish their second full-length.

It has long been a trope of Civil War history that Gettysburg was an accidental battlefield. General Lee, the old story goes, marched blindly into Pennsylvania while his chief cavalryman Jeb Stuart rode and raided incommunicado. Meanwhile, General Meade, in command only a few days, gave uncertain chase to an enemy whose exact positions he did not know. And so these ignorant armies clashed by first light at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. In the spirit of his iconoclastic Lee's Real Plan at Gettysburg, Troy D. Harman argues for a new interpretation: once Lee invaded Pennsylvania and the Union army pursued, a battle at Gettysburg was entirely predictable, perhaps inevitable.