Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España

Outraged by the precarious economic situation in which some of the conquistadors found themselves, and by the publication of what he rightly considered hearsay accounts of the conquest of Mexico, Bernal Díaz del Castillo undertook, in the mid-16th century, twenty-five years after laying down his arms, the titanic task of writing his own version —the “true” one— of the conquest of the Aztec Empire by Hernán Cortés’s troops. The result of this reckoning is this fascinating chronicle, in which Díaz del Castillo describes with extraordinary detail the splendor of the Aztec civilization and the vicissitudes of the conquistadors. This edition of The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, carefully anthologized and adapted to modern Spanish, offers contemporary readers an exceptional narrative about one of the most impressive episodes in the history of humankind: the encounter between Europe and America. A classic of Hispanic literature that we can now read with the fluidity of a gripping novel.