Children of the Sun
The Fall of the Aztecs
Author Elizabeth M. Bahr
July 2009
Book Guild
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9781846243103
337 pages
$33.50 Hardcover
'Montezuma, the Great Speaker, ruler of the Mexica, stood on top of the great pyramid, his hands outstretched to greet the sun. The warrior's body lay crumpled at his feet... He felt exhausted.
A man had to steel himself to ignore the look of terror in another man's eyes that even holy drugs could not extinguish... He told himself that the warrior flew to the sun and joined the souls who lifted it into the sky each morning. Without their blood, the sun would not rise and the world would end. It was a glorious death.'