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A first-person account of the overthrow of Montezuma's doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes

Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España Autor: Bernal Díaz del Castillo Comentado por Roberto González Fernández Comentario introductorio: Esta es la historia narrada, de primera mano, de cómo vivió la Conquista de América uno de los soldados que la protagonizaron... Read Full Overview

Bernal D - del Castillo(1495-1584) served under Cort (c)through the entire Mexican campaign, and his narrative, one of only four extant firsthand accounts, is both an invaluable hirstorical document and a spectacular epic. He was with Cort (c)when the latter sank the ships, thus... Read Full Overview

The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a new abridgement of Diaz del Castillo's classic Historia verdadera de la conquista de Nueva Espa a, offers a unique contribution to our understanding of the political and religious forces... Read Full Overview

Bernal D az del Castillo (1496 - 1584) fue un conquistador espa ol que particip en la conquista de M xico en el siglo XVI."Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espa a" es una obra de estilo cautivador desde las primeras l neas. Nos narra el proceso de la conquista... Read Full Overview

El testimonio de los que estuvieron all? un documento imprescindible para comprender la conquista de M?xico

Bernal D?az del Castillo fue uno de los descubridores y conquistadores de la Nueva Espa?a, sus provincias y del cabo de Honduras. Ya viejo y retirado escribi?... Read Full Overview

Soldier of fortune and 16th century Spanish conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo is best known today for his first-hand accounts of Spain's expeditions to the New World. The son of a prominent regidor of Medina del Campo, Diaz del Castillo left home in 1514 at age eighteen... Read Full Overview

2020 Reprint of the 1963 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. D az took part in the campaigns against the Mexica, later called the Aztec Empire. He was a highly experienced member of Hern n Cort s's expedition... Read Full Overview

Ninguna de las cr nicas de la conquista del Nuevo Mundo alcanza el valor literario e hist rico de La Verdadera Historia de la Conquista de la Nueva Espa a, un acontecimiento hist rico que cambi al mundo para siempre, narrado por uno de sus protagonistas. Esta es una obra de... Read Full Overview

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

This rugged new translation--the first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical edition of the Guatemalan MS--allows Diaz to recount, in his own battle-weary and often cynical voice, the achievements, stratagems, and... Read Full Overview