Nero's Killing Machine

The True Story of Rome's Remarkable Fourteenth Legion

By: Stephen Dando-Collins

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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’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.

Author Information: 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, Cleopatra's Kidnappers: How Caesar's Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar, and Mark Antony's Heroes: How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Made an Emperor, all from 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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Atlas	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Author's Note	p. xiii
Facing the British Warrior Queen	p. 1
Wiped Out	p. 8
Rescue on the Sambre	p. 26
Cicero's Blunder	p. 32
The Uprising	p. 47
The Rules of Plunder	p. 54
The Hill at Lerida	p. 61
Spitting in Scipio's Eye	p. 70
Left Behind	p. 79
Antony and the Assassins	p. 83
Sextus, Sea Battles, and Suicides	p. 91
Pain in Spain, Glory in Germany	p. 103
Blood and Guts in Pannonia	p. 110
The Varus Disaster	p. 113
Mutiny on the Rhine	p. 130
Going After Hermann the German	p. 139
Showdown in Germany	p. 152
Wrecked	p. 167
Claudius's Invaders	p. 174
Catching King Caratacus	p. 188
Boudicca the Terrorist	p. 198
Last Stand on Watling Street	p. 216
The Year of the Four Emperors	p. 233
Bloody Bedriacum	p. 238
Storm on the Rhine	p. 250
The Gemina's Revenge	p. 257
Good-bye and Applaud Us	p. 266
Appendices
The Legions of Rome, 30 B.C.-A.D. 233	p. 277
Imperial Roman Military Ranks and Their Modern-Day Equivalents	p. 281
The Praetorian Guard, the City Guard, the Night Watch	p. 285
Sources	p. 295
Glossary	p. 303
Index	p. 309
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