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Summary: Very Helpful.
Review: I would say that if a person really wanted to understand King Philip's War without spending decades studying it, this is a good book to read along with Leach's "Flintlock and Tomahawk" and LePore's "The Name of War."Fantastic maps! Very helpful in getting a good picture of the battles.
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Summary: Great History, Great Travelogue
Review: If you're an amateur historian that prefers a logical sequential order to your reading, then don't buy this one. It's more like a scrapbook, or collage than a step-by-step history. I suppose if you've already done a little reading on this subject, and you simply want a reference book to put on your shelf, then this may be the buy. Otherwise, there's got to be some much better choices.
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Summary: Readers Beware
Review: If you're an amateur historian that prefers a logical sequential order to your reading, then don't buy this one. It's more like a scrapbook, or collage than a step-by-step history. I suppose if you've already done a little reading on this subject, and you simply want a reference book to put on your shelf, then this may be the buy. Otherwise, there's got to be some much better choices.
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Summary: This is a book that you just cannot put down
Review: In living King Philip's war through the words of the author, this book put articulate reality into an historical time while capturing my interest from page 1. This book was well researched and written with a vision that portrayed places and events of no other book I have read. I highly recommend this book - FIVE STARS
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Summary: one view of this war
Review: Like most modern American Indian histories they blame the Europens for every bad thing that happened to the Indians.Well the Indians were not ignorant of the Europens or there ways. Squantio, and Samoset friends of Massasoit had lived with Europens. Wampangag tribe knew about the French in Canada.The Indians knew that by helping the Plymouth Colony that warfare was inevitable.
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Summary: A rare find
Review: This book is one of those rarities that can delight passionate history buffs, professional historians, serious field explorers, and armchair travelelers alike. The authors have skillfully drawn on nearly every worthwhile source on King Philip's War to create a fascinating and readable text. What's really great, though, is the photos, maps, and place descriptions. You might live over 350 years later and most of a continent away but they still give you a strong sense of "being there" during one of the greatest white-Indian showdowns of American history.
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Summary: A rare find
Review: This book is one of those rarities that can delight passionate history buffs, professional historians, serious field explorers, and armchair travelelers alike. The authors have skillfully drawn on nearly every worthwhile source on King Philip's War to create a fascinating and readable text. What's really great, though, is the photos, maps, and place descriptions. You might live over 350 years later and most of a continent away but they still give you a strong sense of "being there" during one of the greatest white-Indian showdowns of American history.
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Summary: History every American should read
Review: This book tells the story of the Colonial conquest of New England. It is the real history that far too few Americans know. The authors are fair and balanced in their presentation, only interested in what happened and why, no political agendas here. It is extremely well written and full of great illustrations and maps. Anyone interested in history would enjoy this book. Fabulous!
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Summary: Captivating reading!
Review: This is a fantastic book. Beautifully written and illustrated. Haven't finished reading it yet, but it has already given me a whole new understanding, not only of the history of colonial New England, but of the troubled and as yet unresolved history of the relationship between European and Native peoples in this country. This is much more than a guide book to obscure sites of the King Philip War. This book explains a lot about why the history of relations between European and Native has been and continues to be so difficult. Its gruesome tale also explains why this is not a part of our history that has made it into American history textbooks -- at least none that I or my children have ever had in school. Perhaps by telling the story Schultz and Tougias have helped open up a path toward truth and reconciliation in the relationship between European and Native Americans. This is must reading for anyone who cares about history, who cares about the state of race relations in America, or who dares to try to understand how we got to where we are.
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Summary: Take this along on your trip to New England
Review: This wonderful book not only tells the stroy of King Philip's War with accuracy and detail, it also provides an excellent guide to the various sites throughout New England where key events in the war's history occurred. These are not the typical sites you'll find in Fodor's or at the chamber of commerce, but they provide insight into a (shamefully) forgotten but important period of American history. Take it along when you take your next trip to New England, and on your way to Lexington & Concord, make sure you visit a few sites form an earlier -- and equally pivotal-- American war.
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