Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
Bernal Díaz del Castillo · c. 1496 – 1584
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An old foot soldier who marched with Cortés finished this memoir in Guatemala in 1568, partly to correct histories that gave all the credit to the captain. He remembers horses by name, the first sight of Tenochtitlan across the lake, hunger and fear. He is a participant, with a participant's blind spots about the people he helped conquer, and his book stands among the most vivid eyewitness histories ever written.