 | Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $0.98 A very comprehensive and readable account of New England in the period 1620 to 1676 and beyond.
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 | The Red King's Rebellion Racial Politcs in New England 1675-1678
Buy used from: $18.99 This is an entertaining as well as informative book about King Philip's War.
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 | Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip's War (Reprint) by Douglas Edward Leach
Buy new: $12.20 / Used from: $16.04 For years, this book has been considered the "bible" of King Philip's War. The essentials of all the battles, etc. are here although recent authors have added many details.
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 | The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $3.98 This book explains the mind set of those Puritans whose policies and greed brought about the devastating war. I cannot recommend this book too highly.
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 | New England on Fire! Stories from King Philip's War by Margaret Barton
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $15.00 Well, of course, I think this book is great. I wrote it! Although the other books on this list are nonfiction, this book of fiction tells the story of the War accurately and is an easy read for the general reader.
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 | King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676 (Native Americans of the Northeast) by James David Drake
Buy new: $22.45 / Used from: $16.84 Professor Drake classifies King Philip's War a civil war because natives and colonists had formed the beginnings of an integrated society with the line between native and colonist blurred. Many natives fought on the side of the colonists.
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 | King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict by Eric B. Schultz
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.64 This book gives a succinct account of the War and has a lengthy section devoted to the New England landmarks of the War with very detailed accounts of the action taking place in each.
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 | The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics Among the New England Indians by Patrick Malone
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $6.62 I was surprised to learn that the Indians' understanding of the technology of available weapons surpassed the colonists'. That was a great advantage for them in the beginning as well as their "unfair" tactics of guerrilla warfare.
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 | The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.00 Professor LePore points out that English documents written shortly after the War paint the natives as barbaric, savage, cruel. This description has influenced our image and policy towards the Native Americans ever since.
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 | Igniting King Philip's War: The John Sassamon Murder Trial by Yasuhide Kawashima
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $3.65 This fascinating book is devoted to analyzing the murder trial that set off King Philip's War.
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 | Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $6.99 This is a primary document relating the three month captivity of Mary Rowlandson (the author) during the War. It is the one book where researchers get a glimpse of the natives during the War.
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 | So Dreadfull a Judgment: Puritan Responses to King Philip's War, 1676-1677
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $9.89 This collection of primary documents from King Philip's War includes writings by Increase Mather, Mary Rowlandson and Benjamin Church. The latter's account of his participation is an adventure story in the mold of later frontier heroes.
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