The Conquest of New Spain

Author: Diaz del Castillo, Bernal

Mexico

Published on 26 July 1973 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 416 pages
194 x 130 x 24 | 303g

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 Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a fascinatingly detailed description of the Spanish landing in Mexico in 1520 and 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.