About this title: 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. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish ...
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Description: maps. Very Good. 12mo. 413pp. Penguin Classics edition of Bernal Diaz's account of the defeat of the Aztecs by Hernan Cortes, first written only 50 years after the event (Bernal had served under Cortes); translated by JM Cohen; covers lightly rubbed, VG throughout. read more
Edition: Ex-Lib
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Folio Society, London
Date Published: 1963
Description: Illustrated. Very Good. 6.5 x 10 hard cover book. Gilt lettering and decorations on green spine and cover. A history of the conquest of New Spain. 351 pages. Ex-library book. Very Good condition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Viking Pr
Date Published: 1963-08-01
ISBN-13:9780140441239ISBN:0140441239
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1963
ISBN-13:9780140441239ISBN:0140441239
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Green/gilt decorated hardback cloth cover
Publisher: The Folio Society, London
Date Published: 1975
Description: G: in Good condition with rubbed orange slipcase. Discoloured marks on covers. 351pp: Black&white illustrations. Endpaper maps: 250mm x 170mm (10" x 7") read more
Edition: 2nd Impression Thus
Binding: Decorative Cloth
Publisher: Folio Society, London
Date Published: 1975
Description: Near Fine in Slip Case jacket. 8vo-over 7ž"-9ž" tall. 351 pp. Crisp, bright and tight copy with bright gilt design. Previous owner's bookplate on front pasted down paper. Slip case has minor wear. read more
Description: Very Good. 0140441239 Soft cover copy with light over all wear to the cover. The pages are tight and clean with no markings. We ship fast and package well. Expedited shipping is available. read more
Description: Acceptable. Markings (underlining, etc. ) inside book. 13th. ACCEPTABLE with noticeable wear to cover and pages. Binding intact. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1963-08-30
ISBN-13:9780140441239ISBN:0140441239
Description: Good. Paperback. General paperback wear, bends in spine, possible bends from reading on the cover, and may have a bookstore stamp inside cover. Quick response! read more
"An excellent history of Spain into the late 1990's. Recommended for anyone who will be travelling to Spain and would like to be brought up to speed in more recent Spanish history. Readable."
"this is a history lesson that stays with you long after you read it. bernal diaz's first hand account as a conquistador is intense and dramatic suspence filled epic, that will leave you breathless. his vivid description of his expedition with the spanish captain cortez in the settlement and pacification of what is now Mexico is action filled extravaganza which reads like an adventure novel. ancient civilations,undiscoverd world , secret chambers of treasure, villians , heros, heroines,. conquest is a frank , mud, steel and blood account of this bloody piece of colonial spains heritage. the first hand point of view account of diaz , a soldier in the expidition . experiances, transport the reader back in time.the scenes he describes in the book are both, mystical and haunting, a dreamlike reality of a another time. some of the accounts range between the unbelieveable if it wasnt true and bizzare, the Mayan prophesey , and the ancient bones of a race of evil giants.? evn doyle and burroughs would have been hard pushed to pen a ripping yarn such as this. by far one of the most important books about humanity ever writtin, and well worth a fresh look , in relfection to the foriegn policy of modern superpowers."
"Great first hand account of the Cortes invasion of Mexico by someone who was there. This is a must read for anyone interested in the Spanish conquest of what is now Mexico."
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