This book is extremely interesting because it breaks away from the conventional treatment of the period when Europeans were taking over the New World and the time before the Europeans set foot in the Americas.

Author Feldman throws a monkey wrench into the fantasy that all was peaceful and lovely before the bearded beasts from across the Atlantic showed up. The stories Feldman tells illustrate a time (before and after the Europeans arrived) when (like Hobbes's description of the Dark More...

Nature is red in tooth and claw. Scholars who have looked past A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving into what really happened with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock will know: human history is equally savage, bloody and brutal.

George Franklin Feldman uses original written accounts and archaeological evidence to illustrate the barbarity that is often cartooned out of American history books. The European explorers we have named parks, highways, towns, counties and
funky cars after were not o

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This book is an eye-opener. It is documented thoroughly and accurately and teaches all mankind that living in peace with respect for one another far outweighs this barbaric, historic alternative.

Quite a comprehensive and serious history lesson. More in-depth than I was anticipating, but enjoyable and very informative. Not for the squeamish.

Review to come.

Worst book I've ever read. It could have made it's point in about five paragraphs.