The Gallic War (Annotated)

Julius Caesar's The Gallic War, or Commentarii de Bello Gallico, recounts the campaigns of 58–50 BCE by which Rome subdued Gaul and confronted Germans and Britons beyond its familiar frontiers. Written in a spare, disciplined Latin and famously in the third person, the work fuses military report, ethnographic observation, and political self-fashioning. Its clarity and apparent objectivity belong t...