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Caesar's Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome

45 reviews
Stephen Dando-Collins

Wiley, 2004

Follow the 10th Legion with (and without) Caesar.
This book is a fun and easy read if you are interested in Roman history, Caesar, military history and strategy, or history in general. It is a serious and in-depth work, but is also very interesting in terms seeing the action - the boots on the ground - view. It is about leadership and honor. And loyalty. It is about virtue. This book takes the reader through the success, the trials and ...

Cleopatra's Kidnappers: How Caesars Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar

9 reviews
Stephen Dando-Collins

Wiley, 2005

Porcia swallows red hot coals... ouch!
The 6th legion, the FERRATA, was called the 'iron clad'. They fought for Pompey, were captured by Caesar and then turned into his weapon of mass destruction. The 6th were barracaded in Alexandria, fought on the edge of the Nile, fought in Spain, fought in Turkey and served 20 years in the Roman legions before ever laying eyes on the city of Rome. But what a homecoming! Three triumphs in a row. ...

Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military ...
Stephen Dando-Collins

Da Capo Press, 2008

When he died in 1877, Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the Vanderbilt dynasty, was wealthier than the U.S. Treasury. But he had nearly lost his fortune in 1856, when William Walker, a young Nashville genius, set out to conquer Central America and, in the process, take away Vanderbilt’s most profitable shipping business. To win back his empire, Vanderbilt had to win a bloody war involving seven countries. Tycoon’s War tells the ...

The Inquest

4 reviews
Stephen Dando-Collins

I Books, 2005

Great book, not a perfect one
Stephen Dando-Collins has written a great historical portrait, as if he experienced himself what he describes. The main and secondary characters are all greatly conceived and developed, as well as the plot and the scenarios. In the end, the conclusion of the book is not as bright. But the fact is that the "historical Jesus" is quite controversial, so the author tried to leave the conclusion ...

Blood of the Caesars: How the Murder of Germanicus Led to the Fall of Rome

3 reviews
Stephen Dando-Collins

Wiley, 2008

Very Nice Mystery
I have enjoyed before the books relating the History of the Roman Legions by author Dando-Collins, especially Nero's Killing Machine that gives background on the campaigns of Germanicus and how he become recognized as one of Rome's best military commanders. In this new book he gives us an intriguing possibility about the untimely death of Germanicus and we are confonted with evidence linking ...

Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor

3 reviews
Stephen Dando-Collins

Wiley, 2008

Living History
Stephen Dando-Collins writes very well, you get the history, facts I hadn't read before and real research without a million footnotes to distract from the tale. I have read his whole series on the legions. Excellent

Nero's Killing Machine: The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion (Roman Legions)

17 reviews
Stephen Dando-Collins

Wiley, 2006

A Roman Legion Comes to Life
Once again, author Stephen Dando-Collins demonstrates his exceptional writing talents. This book is his second account of a Roman legion; in this case, the 14th. He follows this Legion through its long and glorious history. Along the way, he describes in vivid detail its participation in battles against "Herman" the German and Queen Boudicca. These include the famous Battle of Watling Street ...

Standing Bear Is a Person: The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice

5 reviews
Stephen Dando-Collins

Da Capo Press, 2005

A "Must Read" for anyone interested in Native American history
It took me about 30 pages to get into this book, but I was hooked from then on. Despite extensive reading about Native American history, I had never known the process or participants involved in granting Native people their rights as citizens. This book is factual, thought-provoking, and alternately sad and uplifting, but most of all it is interesting. The chapter about the trial, which ends ...

Informe De Judea, El
DANDO-COLLINS STEPHEN, 2007

El magistrado Julio Varro viaja hasta Judea cuarenta años después de la muerte de Jesús. con la peligrosa misión de demostrar que este jamás resucitó. Su informe confidencial podría cambiar el curso de la historia.Provincias romanas de Siria y Judea. En el año 71 de nuestra era. Roma ha conseguido sofocar la revuelta judía pero un núcleo de insurrectos. conocidos como los nazarenos. amenaza al Imperio. Para acabar con ellos el poder romano abre ...

Mark Antony's Heroes
Stephen Dando-Collins

John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2006

Caesar's Legion
Stephen Dando-Collins

John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2004

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