The Conquest of New Spain (Penguin Classics)

Vivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's... Comments: Bernal Díaz's bloody tale is an extremely revealing text and an overt message... This Penguin edition of Bernal Diaz's account of Cortes's annihilation of the... Of all of the writers of history, none may be as accurate in their accounts as... Before reading Diaz's account of the Mexican conquest, a friend of mine... You can take all the faux adventure movies cobbled together with computer... Read More »

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