The journals of the foot soldier Bernal Díaz (1492-1584) are the fullest surviving eyewitness account of the Mexican conquest led by Hernán Cortés. This volume focuses on the fall of Mexico, and includes a timeline of the 1521 siege that compares Díaz's and Cortés' accounts of the event.

An eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico (1519 1522); this volume focuses on the fall of Mexico in 1521.