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gala's review
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Note: I don’t possess a habit of reading history books regularly, so I’m assessing this book as a fiction reader.
It was a great reading for me as a person who never studied American history in school, and never learnt in detail the history of Indian American Wars. I enjoyed thoroughly the first half of the book (until the Cherokee removal process), which is written in a less academic and more engaging manner. It is written very compellingly, with lots of interesting details about personalities and identities of people involved, with analysis of events and decisions taken. The second part of the book though was more difficult to bare through, since it mostly presents facts with a lot of densely provided information. It felt like an author was trying to put materials of a four hour talk into a half an hour presentation. Would love to read more about events described in the second half of the book, but in a more captivating style.
The story of Indian wars made me feel incredibly uneasy, especially the details of mentioned above Cherokee removal process, and the general regard of whites toward indigenous tribes, which, indeed, passed and probably still passing unimaginable difficulties in adapting brought by Europeans ways of living.
It was a great reading for me as a person who never studied American history in school, and never learnt in detail the history of Indian American Wars. I enjoyed thoroughly the first half of the book (until the Cherokee removal process), which is written in a less academic and more engaging manner. It is written very compellingly, with lots of interesting details about personalities and identities of people involved, with analysis of events and decisions taken. The second part of the book though was more difficult to bare through, since it mostly presents facts with a lot of densely provided information. It felt like an author was trying to put materials of a four hour talk into a half an hour presentation. Would love to read more about events described in the second half of the book, but in a more captivating style.
The story of Indian wars made me feel incredibly uneasy, especially the details of mentioned above Cherokee removal process, and the general regard of whites toward indigenous tribes, which, indeed, passed and probably still passing unimaginable difficulties in adapting brought by Europeans ways of living.
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