Captain from Castile

Collection "International Library".

Translated from English by Marie-Madeleine DUJON and Jean CASTET

Summary: "A novel that for the first time unflinchingly depicted the Spanish conquest of America, it achieved unparalleled success immediately after the last war (to the point of outselling Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber for three years on the bestseller list). The author's uncompromising stance certainly contributed to this, and it did not fail to cause a scandal. Shellabarger, an American historian turned novelist, dared to vividly recount the first attempted genocide in History: the annihilation of Native American civilization for the benefit of conquerors from old Europe. Published as a world war was ending, his book is not just a historical novel - though it is now considered an absolute model of the genre - it also, and above all, aims to expose the horror that tainted, from its very beginning, the white man's great dream of domination."