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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Edition: First? PaperbackEx Library Usual Marking
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, United Kingdom
Description: Reading Copy Only. Ex-Library. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Torn at head and along edge of spine. creasing to cover. worn along cover edges. title and half title page missing. 411pp. read more
Description: 413 pp. four maps. Some fifty years after Cortes and his small band of adventurers defeated the Aztecs, one of his men, Bernal Diaz, wrote this account of the campaign. It covers the march from the coast, Montezuma's death, the massacre of the Spaniards and the eventual capture of the capital of Mexico. Paper a little browned, as usual, but a good copy in lightly creased card covers. read more
Description: Softback reprint published in the Penguin Classics series. Black card binding with white lettering and cover image of a Zapotec figure from Monte Alban. Usual 180mmx110mm format. 413pp. 3pp maps. Bernal Diaz (c.1498-1580) served under Cortez, and fifty years later wrote this famous account of the march from the coast, the death of Montezuma, the massacre of the Spaniards, and the eventual capture of Mexico City. No inscriptions. Tightly bound. Condition Very Good. 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
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: 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
"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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