This rugged new translation-the first entirely new English translation in half a century and the only one based on the most recent critical edition of the Guatemalan MS-allows Daz to recount, in his own battle-weary and often cynical voice, the achievements, stratagems, and frequent cruelty of Hernndo Corts and his men as they set out to overthrow Moctezuma's Aztec kingdom and establish a Spanish empire in the New World.