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Tom mentions reading this book as a child, describing it as 'Hugh Thomas' enormous, great brick of an account of the Spanish conquest.' Dominic notes it's 'about 7,000 pages long' and 'weirdly both very, very detailed and oddly a bit boring.' Tom specifically remembers the Quetzal Owl warrior episode from this book.

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Dominic references Hugh Thomas's 'huge book on the conquest of Mexico,' noting that many historians now question some of its conclusions because Thomas takes Spanish sources at face value