Letters from Mexico
by Hernan Cortes |
Conquest
by Hugh Thomas |
The Broken Spears
by Miguel Leon Portilla | 
History of the Conquest of Mexico
by William H. Prescott |
Aztecs
by Inga Clendinnen | 
Cortes and Montezuma
by Maurice Collis | 
Anne Frank
by Melissa Muller |
Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
by Buddy Levy | 
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
by Matthew Restall |
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
by Bartolome de Las Casas |
Ambivalent Conquests
by Inga Clendinnen | 
The Railway Man
by Eric Lomax | 
Good-Bye to All That
by Robert Graves |
When Broken Glass Floats
by Chanrithy Him | 
Not Even My Name
by Thea Halo | 
A War Like No Other
by Victor Davis Hanson | 
The Nature of Alexander
by Mary Renault |
Forgotten Voices of the Great War
by Max Arthur | 
Crossing the Borders of Time
by Leslie Maitland | 
Dutch Girl
by Robert Matzen |
Vivid and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma's Aztec empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes and his band of adventurers. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520, their amazement at the city, the exploitation of the natives for gold and other treasures, the expulsion and flight of the Spaniards, their regrouping and eventual capture of the Aztec capital. The Conquest of New Spain has a compelling immediacy that brings the past to life and offers a unique eyewitness view of the conquest of one of the greatest civilizations in the New World.