The Sad Night: The Story of an Aztec Victory and a Spanish Loss

Description

This sensitive treatment of La Noche Triste, or The Sad Night, the last battle the Aztecs won against the Spaniards, is a highly effective melding of graceful, lucid text and stylized art.
Designed to resemble Aztec codices, the illustrations appear in double-page strips above the bordered text.
Beginning with the Aztec migration to Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City), the history of this people is traced through their final conquest by Cortes’s forces….
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This title has the distinction of combining myth with historical fact in a particularly successful manner.
An engaging introduction to Mexican history.