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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (2nd Edition) by John M. Cohen (Translator), Bernal Diaz Paperback, 412 Pages, Published 1963 ISBN-10: 0-14-044123-9 / 0140441239 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044123-9 / 9780140441239 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 Díaz del Castillo, himself a soldier under Cortes, presents a |