Conquistador

In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day. It was a moment unique in human history the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. In 1519 Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico determined not only to expand the Spanish empire but to convert the nati...See More