Incredible telling of how thoughtless people, especially those in government, constantly seek to destroy beauty simplely because they can't be bothered to make the effort to understand anything more complex than a pet rock. This time the target is the historic beauty of Bath, England. I currently have a front row seat to the sack of Savannah, Georgia by the ignorant and the self-absorbed. Just more proof that if we don't learn history's lessons we are doomed to the whims of the clever and the determined. The pictures are fantastic!

This is a frightening account of the German, Austrian and Hungarian hyperinflations of the early 1920's. It includes blow-by-blow accounts by diplomats, bankers, and ordinary folk who survived the total annihilation of their currencies. Fergusson has done an outstanding job of documentation and must have spent thousands of hours in archives. It is indeed a shame that this book is out-of-print.