The conquest of new Spain
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 1496-15842005
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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. The author was a soldier under Cortes.
Main title:
The conquest of new Spain / Bernal Díaz ; translated with an introduction by J.M. Cohen.
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 1963.
Collation:
412 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9780140441239 (pbk)
Dewey class:
972.02946
Language:
EnglishSpanish
BRN:
270581