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Conquest

Cortes, Montezuma, and the Fall of Old Mexico

Hugh Thomas
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Pages
832
Year
2013
Language
English

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Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history.

Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from one of our most gifted historians.

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"A fascinating work that will surely go down as a defining book on the era and one of the best and most readable nonfiction books of the year."
Edward Schumacher, The Wall Street Journal
"Conquest makes such exciting reading one forgets that these things actually happened. Hugh Thomas documents characters and events in as much detail as humanly conceivable....Monumental."
Alfred MacAdam, Newsday
"Thomas balances writerly skill, exhaustive research, and scholarly documentation to make his book as useful as possible to both general and more involved readers....Essential."
Thomas Christensen, San Francisco Chronicle

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