This book is a compelling and insightful rebuke of perhaps the most famous and long lived propaganda campaign in history. Piece by piece the author examines and refutes the story we've all been fed since childhood about the conquest of the Aztec empire; that Hernando Cortez was a brilliant and ambitious conquistador who, through determination, cunning, and superior intellect almost single handedly overthrew the bloody Aztecs. Read this interesting and well researched book for a far more factual, if less cut and dry, account of what actually happened.