That’s a great book. I do have some sympathy for Montezuma who is portrayed sympathetically as I remember. Now that you mention it, I’m going to reorder it on Amazon.
“I do have some sympathy for Montezuma who is portrayed sympathetically as I remember.”
I have read it a couple of times. It does a good job of showing how the conquistadores were able to conquer enormous populations.
If you have ever read Machiavelli, it was obvious that both Montezuma and Cortez were Machiavellian “princes” of the first order. The author was rather sympathetic to Montezuma, and criticized Cortez a good bit. It is a brilliant work.
Machiavelli, Cortez, and Montezuma were all contemporaries. Obviously, Neither Cortez or Montezuma had read Machiavelli. Machiavelli only wrote down what was common knowledge of “princes” at the time.