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FIFTH SUN: A NEW HISTORY OF THE AZTECS

Author Camilla Townsend Publisher Oxford University Press Price £19.99 Released Out now

“Townsend has gone back to original sources, written by the Aztecs themselves”

In 1519, Hernando Cortés entered the Aztec kingdom and met its ruler, Moctezuma. The story of that fateful meeting and what followed is familiar to generations, but

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