Very well written and well researched history of the Inca's fall. The horrors were not understated or ignored, and the battles and conflict were second to the sociopolitical nature of the Inca empire and the Spanish conquistadors. Given how what we know is from Spanish chronicles and perhaps some surviving Incan accounts, it makes sense that the archaeological discoveries are given plenty of space in the book, with Macchu Picchu looming large, as it does now despite its less important status when inhabited. I will say that the in depth descriptions of expeditions hundreds of years after the empire stood felt superfluous at points. I understand the necessity and the tying together of past and present, but it just wasn't necessarily what I was looking for in a story of the Incas.