Kyle Harrison
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Conquest — Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico
Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico
- Author
- Hugh Thomas
- Published
- 1993
- Pages
- 848
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Thomas’s full-length account of 1519-1521 from both sides of the encounter — the Mexica state as it actually worked, and the improvised expedition that brought it down.
Where I saw it: A reply to @typesfast’s question on X, June 5, 2025 — “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” — recovered from that thread and saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Thread: https://x.com/typesfast/status/1930617097068912787
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Mexico · History · Discovery — where this sits in the corpus.