Books by Matthew Restall

7. Matthew Restall, When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History .  A radical revision of the usual story, based on a careful reexamination of Spanish and Nahuatl stories.  Restall seems to be mostly correct, but I will add two points: a) I never took the older account very seriously anyway, and b) I am more interested in the new macro-story than the micro-revisions of the march and the encounter and surrender and so on.  One big difference seems to be there was ...