Publisher's Synopsis
Organized aggression and conquest have always provided violent men with an opportunity to commit atrocities, and this applies to the Spanish Conquest of the Americas. In Peru, two names overshadow all acts of violence by reason of exceptional expressions of evil - Lope de Aguirre and Francisco de Carvajal. The translator of this volume has chosen to let the eyewitnesses and secondary sources tell the stories of their atrocities.