Diaz del Castillo, Bernal , 1495-1584

The conquest of New Spain / Bernal Diaz ; translated with an introduction by J.M. Cohen - Baltimore, MD : Penguin Books , c1963 - 412 p. : illus. ; 20 cm

Translation of the first 157 chapters of: Historia verdadera de la conquista de la nueva Espaņa.

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 doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers.


Translated from the Spanish to English

9780140441239


Spain---Social life and customs
Mexico---History---Sources---Conquest, 1519-1540

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