The discovery and conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521
/ by Bernal Díaz del Castillo ; edited from the only exact copy of the original MS (and published in Mexico) by Genaro García ; translated with an introduction and notes by A.P. Maudslay ; new introduction by Hugh Thomas
- 1st Da Capo Press ed
- New York : Da Capo Press , 1996.
- xxxi, 478 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1956. Includes index.
Bernal Diaz del Castillo served under Cortes through the entire Mexicn campaign, and his narrative, one of onlyfour extant firsthand accounts, is both an invaluable historical document and a spectacular epic. (From the publisher´s desciption.)