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Referenced multiple times as a primary source memoir. Dominic quotes from it describing the Spanish witnessing their captured comrades being sacrificed at the temple, and discusses its reliability as an eyewitness account.

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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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Tom describes it as 'one of the most haunting and moving history books I've ever read' because it felt like 'a feat of resurrectionism' in understanding the Aztecs. Dominic notes the author used many Nahuatl sources that were previously relatively untouched.