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Title: Historia Verdadadera Conq Nueva Espana by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo ISBN: 9-7007180-0-X Publisher: Editorial Porrua Pub. Date: 01 January, 1992 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A first hand account
Comment: The strength of this book is the fact that it is the account of the Mexican campaign by an actual soldier in the Spanish conquistador army. We are fortunate to have had handed down to us through the ages a book which describes a first hand experience of what actually happened (much as Julius Caesars Gallic or Britannic campaigns). Whether what happened is right or wrong and how people suffered because of its consequence is (and always will be) a matter of debate. The perception of what is a strange and new world (it reads sometimes like science fiction) can be likened to a modern day book of space travel. This book brings to life what may have been the experience of these men in a strange world which they have never experienced before and probably gives us a perception as to why they destoyed it in the end (for a more in depth understanding read : Hernan Cortez; Letters on Mexico, where Cortez is in conflict with himself on whether to destroy the Aztec civilization or not). It must be seen in the context of events which not only transformed the Americas but also Europe (indeed Spain) for ever. This has to been seen in the context of the commencement of a new world order which was started by the disruption caused by the capture of Constantinople by the Turks and the economic crisis that it caused in Europe. Indeed Spain and Portugal were at the spear head of Europe's colonial wars and creation of empires. The rest is history. In order to understand modern day Mexico this book is a must.

Rating: 5
Summary: Historia Verdadera Conq. Nueva Espana
Comment: This book was written by one of the best known historians of the 1500's. It tells you in detail the atrocities committed by the spanish conquerors in what is now Mexico, and most of Central America in order to provide glory and riches to the spanish crown. It provides an understanding of the decadence of what once was the mighty Mayan civilization, and the great Aztec empire. No other culture, or people in the history of the world has suffered what the indigenous of the new world has been through, and no other culture, or people has survived with such great courage, preserving their native tongues, and rich cultures as the mayans have in one of the worst places to be, their homelands, or what was then called by the Spaniards "El Reyno de Guatemala" (The Kingdom of Guatemala).