King Philip's War
The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict

The co-authors provide a detailed overview of the events making up King Philip's War in a book that looks the details in three different ways: in chronological order, by geographic locations like villages and towns and battle sites, and through the presentation of content from primary documents of t......more

I had looked forward to reading this book, but was somewhat disappointed. This is not a proper history. Generally, one writes histories due to finding new source material or because previous works were inadequate. This is not the case in this instance. The book covers what has been done before and t......more

A very thorough telling of King Philip's War, a series of skirmishes between the Native American populations and the English settlers prior to the American Revolution. To be honest, my interest in this area is because my hometown is central to the conflict and it was interesting to discover more abo......more

The first section of the book was written well and provides a great summary of the war, and I applaud the authors for bringing such a level of detail to this book, but I found the debates and constant questioning of exact locations on many occasions throughout the book, to be redundant......more