Synopses & Reviews
Reviews From The First Edition
Posterity may remember The Dollar Crisis as a seminal book in the field of twenty-first century economics. Indeed, rarely has a book offered such a grim yet well argued view of the current economic situation facing the world.
Steven Irvine, FinanceAsia
Richard Duncan crisply explains why payback time for years of U.S. credit excesses, payments imbalances, and securitized sub-par lending is imminent. Mr. Greenspan, your time is up.
Philip Bowring, International Herald Tribune
In this revised edition of the highly acclaimed international bestseller, The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, Richard Duncan describes the flaws in the international monetary system that have destabilized the global economy and that may soon culminate in a deflation-induced worldwide economic slump.
The Dollar Crisis is divided into five parts.The first four parts have been left as they appeared in the original edition of the book. The seven chapters that comprise Part Five are entirely new.
Part One describes how the U.S. trade deficits, which now exceed U.S.$1 million a minute, have destabilized the global economy by creating a worldwide credit bubble.
Part Two explains why these giant deficits cannot persist and why a U.S. recession and a collapse in the value of the dollar are unavoidable.
Part Three analyzes the extraordinarily harmful impact that a U.S. recession and collapse of the dollar would have on the rest of the world.
Part Four offers original recommendations that, if implemented, would help mitigate the damage of the coming worldwide downturn and put in place the foundations for balanced and sustainableeconomic growth in the decades ahead.
Part Five describes the extraordinary evolution of this crisis since the first edition was completed in September 2002. It also considers how the dollar crisis is likely to unfold over the years immediately ahead, the likely policy response to the crisis, and why that response is unlikely to succeed.
The dollar standard is inherently flawed and increasingly unstable. Its collapse will be the most important economic event of the twenty-first century.
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* ""Stephen Dando-Collins tracks the history of the 14th Legion...drawing on 30 years of research for the second of his definitive histories of ancient Roman armies. A fitting chronicle."" (Military History)
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"Stephen Dando-Collins tracks the history of the 14th Legion...drawing on 30 years of research for the second of his definitive histories of ancient Roman armies. A fitting chronicle." (Military History)
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Like "Caesar's Legion, this is popular military history at its most fun. It further expands our history list into the Classical Age.
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The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire-a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under Boudicca. Numbering less than 10,000 men, the disciplined Roman killing machine defeated 230,000 rampaging rebels, slaughtering 80,000 with only 400 Roman losses-an accomplishment that led the emperor Nero to honor the legion with the title ""Conqueror of Britain."" In this gripping book, second in the authors definitive histories of the legions of ancient Rome, Stephen Dando-Collins brings the 14th Legion to life, offering military history aficionados a unique soldiers-eye view of their tactics, campaigns, and battles.
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The glorious saga of the most celebrated legion of the early Roman Empire
In Nero s Killing Machine, the second in the author s definitive histories of the legions of ancient Rome, Stephen Dando-Collins brings the 14th Legion to vivid life. Drawing upon thirty-two years of research, he traces the legion s steps as they were wiped out while in the army of Julius Caesar, then reformed only to be savaged again. For decades the men of the 14th would struggle to regain their lost status, slowly climbing back to glory and eventually making a legendary stand against Britain s Queen Boudicca, vastly outnumbered but determined to go down fighting with honor. Uncovering new information about the legionnaires lives and Roman military practices, Nero s Killing Machine is military history at its finest.
Praise for Caesar s Legion
" A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar s Legio X arguably the most famous legion of its day from its activation to the slogging battle of Munda and from Thapsus, Caesar s tactical masterpiece, to the grim siege of the Jewish fortress of Masada. More than a mere unit account, it incorporates the history of Rome and the Roman army at the height of their power and gory glory. Many military historians consider Caesar s legions the world s most efficient infantry before the arrival of gunpowder. This book shows why. Written in readable, popular style, Caesar s Legion is a must for military buffs and anyone interested in Roman history at a critical point in European civilization."
T. R. Fehrenbach, author of This Kind ofWar, Lone Star, and Comanches
Synopsis
The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire–a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under Boudicca. Numbering less than 10,000 men, the disciplined Roman killing machine defeated 230,000 rampaging rebels, slaughtering 80,000 with only 400 Roman losses–an accomplishment that led the emperor Nero to honor the legion with the title "Conqueror of Britain." In this gripping book, second in the author’s definitive histories of the legions of ancient Rome, Stephen Dando-Collins brings the 14th Legion to life, offering military history aficionados a unique soldier’s-eye view of their tactics, campaigns, and battles.
About the Author
STEPHEN DANDOCOLLINS is the author of Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome (Wiley). He is an Australian-born researcher, editor, and author who has spent the last three decades identifying and studying the individual legions of the Roman army of the late Republic and the empire of the Caesars.
Table of Contents
Atlas.
Acknowledgments.
Author’s Note.
i. Facing the British Warrior Queen.
ii. Wiped Out.
iii. Rescue on the Sambre.
iv. Cicero’s Blunder.
v. The Uprising.
vi. The Rules of Plunder.
vii. The Hill at Lérida.
viii. Spitting in Scipio’s Eye.
ix. Left Behind.
x. Antony and the Assassins.
xi. Sextus, Sea Battles, and Suicides.
xii. Pain in Spain, Glory in Germany.
xiii. Blood and Guts in Pannonia.
xiv. The Varus Disaster.
xv. Mutiny on the Rhine.
xvi. Going After Hermann the German.
xvii. Showdown in Germany.
xviii. Wrecked.
xix. Claudius’s Invaders.
xx. Catching King Caratacus.
xxi. Boudicca the Terrorist.
xxii. Last Stand on Watling Street.
xxiii. The Year of the Four Emperors.
xxiv. Bloody Bedriacum.
xxv. Storm on the Rhine.
xxvi. The Gemina’s Revenge.
xxvii. Good-bye and Applaud Us.
Appendices.
Appendix A: The Legions of Rome, 30 b.c.–a.d. 233.
Appendix B: Imperial Roman Military Ranks and Their Modern-Day Equivalents.
Appendix C: The Praetorian Guard, the City Guard, the Night Watch.
Appendix D: Sources.
Glossary.
Index.