Search Results: HISTORY / Latin America / Central America from William Robertson

London: Bloomsbury, 1988. First UK edition. Hardcover. Good/good. The full story behind America's secret funding of Contra guerrilas in Nicaragua. Everyone has heard of Oliver North, but in this work the author exposes the foot-soldiers behind his 'neat idea', revealing sordid details of drug smuggling, illegal arms deals, assassinations and plots to involve the US directly in Nicuragua. A shocking indictment of a system out of control. Size 24 x 16cm, 287 pages. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library marks, red cloth boards in good illustrated dust jacket, internally good: generally clean in sound bindings.

London: John Murray, 1992. Hardcover. Good/Good. Ward, George (maps). The invasion and conquest of the Americas by Western Europeans, told for the first time from the point of view of the native tribes and civilizations. When Columbus first set foot in the 'New World' there were about a hundred-million 'Americans' - a fifth of the human race - whose ancestors had already discovered it. Great civilizations had grown up; some were democracies, others aggressive empires with cities as large as any then on Earth. Most would fall victim to Western disease, Christian fanaticism and sheer barbarity. Sophisticated worlds were sacked, great art destroyed and wealth stolen. Here, the author quotes the actual speech and writing of five peoples - the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois - through five centuries, reliving their strange, tragic experience and seeing ourselves, the European invaders, through their shrewd eyes. Not since 'Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee' has there been such a powerful and moving… Read More