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October 2020 Issue Matthew Restall Apocalypse Then? Conquistadores: A New History By Fernando Cervantes LR
September 2020 Issue Davíd Carrasco Romancing the Scribe Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs By Camilla Townsend
October 2019 Issue Sara Wheeler No Country for Young Men On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Road Trip By Paul Theroux
October 2018 Issue Duncan Tucker The Darkest Night A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three Students By Anabel Hernández LR
July 2003 Issue Isabel Hilton Montezuma’s Shaggy God Story Survivors In Mexico By Rebecca West, Bernard Schweizer (ed) LR
July 2008 Issue Dea Birkett Hombre Muy Macho Bandit Roads: Into the Lawless Heart of Mexico By Richard Grant LR
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