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The Conquest Of The Incas

The Incas and their World
Book • 1970
Published in 1970, this landmark work remains in print with two revisions and is considered the authoritative account of the Spanish conquest of the Incas.

The book won the Robert Pitman Literary Prize and the Christopher Award in New York.

Hemming spent a full year traveling throughout Peru before writing the book, conducting extensive research to produce this comprehensive historical study.

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Mentioned in 2 episodes

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Tom Holland
as an authoritative account estimating casualties and describing the capture of Atahualpa.
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645. The Fall of the Incas: Massacre in the Andes (Part 2)
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Dominic Sandbrook
as John Hemming's authoritative history of the Inca conquest and its consequences.
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649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6)

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