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The Last Days of the Incas

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The Last Days of the Incas
AuthorKim MacQuarrie
Published2007
Pages522
RecommendedOnce
BuyAmazon
Why it’s on the listPizarro’s conquest of the Inca empire and the forty-year Vilcabamba resistance that followed, with the twentieth-century search for the rebel capital woven through it — the conquest told with the Inca side given equal weight, which most accounts do not manage.

Where I heard about it

  • The replies to @typesfast — named in the thread asking “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (June 2025); the full set of replies is on What’s the best history book… (tweet).

Connections

  • What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
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