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Stephen Dando-Collins

Nero's Killing Machine

The True Story of Rome's Remarkable Fourteenth Legion

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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 author'… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-471-67501-3
  • EAN: 9780471675013
  • Produktnummer: 9196057
  • Verlag: Wiley
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 338 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.4 cm 673 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 673

Über den Autor


STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS 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.

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