War God: Nights of the Witch
- 500bladzijden
- 18 uur lezen
The epic story of the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
Oorlogsgod Reeks
Deze serie neemt lezers mee naar het turbulente tijdperk van de Spaanse verovering van Mexico. Wees getuige van de dramatische ondergang van het Azteekse Rijk en het lot van zijn machtige heerser, Moctezuma. Het verhaal combineert meesterlijk historische gebeurtenissen met meeslepende vertellingen, die de botsing van twee werelden onthullen. Dompel jezelf onder in een wereld van intriges, oorlogsvoering en culturele confrontaties die de geschiedenis hebben gevormd.
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Return of the Plumed Serpent
- 528bladzijden
- 19 uur lezen
The world's leading and most charismatic authority on 'alternative history' reveals in this thrilling narrative of the conquest of Mexico the key role played by a beautiful Mayan princess and by the occult battles waged between the Aztec emperor and the Spanish leaders.
War God, Night of Sorrows
- 400bladzijden
- 14 uur lezen
Cortés and his small army of Conquistadors enter Tenochtitlan, the island city of the Aztecs, as guests of the psychotic emperor Moctezuma who plans to trap them there and kill them all. In a stunning coup, Cortés acts first, taking the emperor hostage and ruling the Aztecs through him. All of Mexico seems about to fall into his hands until a report comes from the coast of the arrival of a new force of Spaniards with more than three times his numbers, sent not to strengthen him but to attack him and wrest the conquest from him. Faced with the choice of abject surrender or war with fellow Spaniards Cortés chooses war and marches out to do battle but, in so doing he fatally weakens his garrison in Tenochtitlan and throws open the doors of Hell