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‘A True Account of the Conquest of New Spain’: Chicanery, adventures and plunder recounted by a soldier-writer

By Leonardo Padura

Bernal Díaz del Castillo, who took Tenochtitlán with Hernán Cortés, wrote a classic chronicle offering his version of the conquest. It is now published adapted and in modern Spanish