The Last Days of the Incas (Hardcover)

from JGolomb

The Last Days of the Incas is a terrifically readable history of the Spanish conquest of the Incas and Peru. Whereas John Hemming's Conquest of the Incas is the definitive modern history, MacQuarrie brings to bear a more narrative and engaging approach. Last Days is historically thorough, but Mac...

from acarritt

Gripping narrative account of the Spanish defeat of the Incas covering the years immediately before the arrival of the Spanish to the capture of the last Inca. This is a real page turner, bringing the events and characters on both sides of the conquest to life. It is easy to read and understand a...

from drmaf

A popular topic of discussion in European intellectual circles over the last couple of centuries has been the so-called Black Legend. Largely formulated in northern Protestant Europe, the Black Legend holds the the golden age of the Spanish Empire was a nightmare of brutality, repression, fanatic...

from yeremenko

A comprehensive look at the Incas from the first contact with the Spanish to their sad end. Also includes a look at the discovery of the Incan ruins and their controversies. This book does a fine job of including enough detail to differentiate between historical figures, but not enough to slow th...

from bness2

The history in this book reads like a horror novel, but it is no novel, it is what actually happened to the Incas when the Spanish raped and pillaged their land and people. I couldn't put this book down, even though parts of it were very disturbing. That humans could treat other humans like this ...