Pizarro: Conqueror of the Inca Kindle Edition

Gives a very complete history of how the Spanish conquered Inca Peru with a small force of men. Excellent reference.

This is a well-researched history of the conquest of the Inca. There are plenty of footnotes and dozens of pages of references, yet it's not a dusty research tome. Admittedly the text is sometimes a bit hard to read due to lengthy sentences with uncommon words, but that's because the author is clearly a very smart guy; the overall story is engaging. The book does a good job of viewing Pizarro and his conquistadores in a historically correct context, which is to say the Inca weren't too pleasant themselves at times and there isn't too much fingerpointing of who was wrong and right; it merely covers the conquest, men and events.Definitely recommended if you'd like to know more about how South America was conquered and the influence of the Spanish on its culture, architecture and peoples.

The book was delivered in a timely manner and in great shape and at a fair price. The book is O.K. It's a little hard to read - it's history and I'm used to reading fiction.

This is a well researched book and is well referenced. However there are some considerable areas of differences to other sources that are unexplained. The book repeats an old unsubstantiated claim that Atahualpa ordered the attack on Pizarro by shouting "Let none of them escape"(pge 39). Words that I have not found elsewhere and contradicting most if not all historians from Betanzos onwards who all state Pizarro initiated the massacre and that Atahualpas force were probably unarmed except for possibly ceremonial weapons. The actual reference for this claim is also unclear. In a similar way the book does not make it clear that Atahualpas half brother Huascar was killed some time after Atahualpa was taken prisoner almost suggesting it was before this event (see pge 26 and 46). It contains information not found easily elsewhere but would have benefited from footnotes that supported those statements that differ from the accepted version of events.

History text rather than an action narrative. Doesn’t give credit to the natives that helped him. Without them he would not have had success.