The Gallic and Civil Wars

These commentaries, written in the first century BCE, are Julius Caesar's third-person account of his own campaigns. The Gallic books cover the years in which he fights tribes in Gaul, crosses into Britain and Germany, and puts down revolts, including that of Vercingetorix. The Civil books follow his break with Pompey and the Senate, the crossing of the Rubicon, and the war in Italy, Spain, Greece, and Egypt. The prose records marches, sieges, speeches to troops, and negotiations. The work is a commander's narrative of conquest and civil war, not a full life of Caesar and not a later imperial history.

Bound in gilt image blocked brown cloth. Dark brown slipcase.