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Bernal Diaz sailed to the new world with CortEs, where in less than two years they managed to defeat the Aztec empire. 40 years later Diaz tells the story of the great expedition, exploring the challenges faced and tactics employed by CortEs, the clashing of cultures, and the exploitation of the natives. La Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva EspaNa is, if not entirely reliable, still an important work of literature. It chronicles, as Todorov says, "e;the most amazing event in our history. In the 'discovery' of other continents and other men there is a real feeling of radical strangeness."e; This edition is based on the Guatemalan manuscript.

This two-volume 1904 edition of Diaz del Castillo's history of the Spanish conquest of Mexico was based on the original manuscript. Diaz del Castillo's highly accessible eyewitness account, written from the viewpoint of a common soldier, first appeared in 1632 and became even more successful than the official chronicles.

The journals of the foot soldier Bernal Diaz (1492-1584) are the fullest surviving eyewitness account of the Mexican conquest led by Hernan Cortes. In this first volume, Diaz recounts his first expeditions to the Yucatan coast and the beginning of his service in Cortes' army.

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 D az 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.