Originally titled Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva Espa a (The True History of the Conquest of New Spain), this first-person narrative by the military adventurer, conquistador, and settler Bernal D az del Castillo (1492-1584) recounts the fall of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II, the defeat of the Aztec Empire, and his participation in the Spanish military campaigns that brought them about. D az served in three Mesoamerican expeditions,...