
The Ashes of Cusco: Manco Inca’s Rebellion and the Siege of 1536
The fragile peace of the Spanish conquest shatters as Manco Inca, the puppet emperor, leads a massive uprising that turns the city of Cusco into an inferno. Trapped and outnumbered, the Pizarro brothers must hold the central square against 100,000 warriors in a desperate struggle that will define the fate of the Andes. Hint: The secret to Spanish survival may lie not in their steel, but in a brutal betrayal and the return of a forgotten rival.