“One cannot face the future without an understanding of history. Gold Wars provides analytic insight into the breakdown of the gold standard in 1914, which ended hundreds of years of price stability, the turmoil of two world wars and the final betrayal of sound money as the U.S. came to dominate the world financial system. The manipulation of the Swiss, and the acquiescence of other European banks, tells a great story which explains why our financial system is now so precariously balanced. As we face an uncertain future today, with even greater financial volatility in prospect, the lessons to be learnt from gold as sound money are eloquently portrayed by Ferdinand Lips with his experience of fifty years in the Swiss banking industry. Forget Star Wars. Gold Wars is a ‘must’ for anyone with an interest in the future of the global monetary system.”