The Conquest of Gaul (Penguin Classics) | 
| Author: Julius Caesar
Creators: Jane F. Gardner, S. A. Handford
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 21509
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0140444335
Dewey Decimal Number: 936.402
EAN: 9780140444339
ASIN: 0140444335
Publication Date: February 24, 1983
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Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... It is, perhaps, the most famous opening line of any memoir in Western civilization. What Caesar and the Romans called "Gaul," although we usually think of it as France, also comprised Belgium, the German lands west of the Rhine, southern Holland, and much of Switzerland. This is the only military campaign of the ancient world for which we have a chronicle written by the general who conducted it, and Julius Caesar is an insightful historian, with a keen eye for detail, as in this scene from the repulsion of the forces of the German king Ariovistus: Caesar placed each of his five generals ahead of a legion and detailed his quaestor to command the remaining legion, so that every soldier might know that there was a high officer in a position to observe the courage with which he conducted himself, and then led the right wing first into action, because he had noticed that the enemy's line was weakest on that side.
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 fascinating July 7, 2008
Why he came, what he saw, whom he conquered. Rendered unto the reader what is Caeser's story.
 De Bello Gallico April 29, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This was the first translation of the Gallic War I read, and it is still my favorite. The index with all the tribes, forts, etc. is particularly useful (a lot of translations don't have one, and to my knowledge none have as comprehensive of one).
A must for anyone in the military March 15, 2008
When I was in the military, they stressed that to understand the craft of war; one should read the classics on war. However, no one told me that it would be fun. I stayed away from Caesar because I thought it would be stuffy. Well I was wrong. This book is a geography lesson and a history lesson. It is even a "how to". Nevertheless, it turns out that being a first person made it come alive. However, he had an ego and a half. The Campaign took place between 58 and 50 BC and the names for the tribes of Gaul are similar to the countries today. Now close your eyes and now open "It Doesn't Take a Hero" by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Where does one stop and the other begin?
2000 Plus years old and still going strong January 10, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
If the pre-christian world is where your interests are this book belongs in your collection. The good old days when power and might formed and held together the greatest empire to ever rule the known world.
 Caesar third person account of his conquest of the Gallia December 22, 2006
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
De Bello Gallico - Julius Caesar third person account of his conquest of Gaul (modern day France, and large parts of Switzerland and Belgium, approximately) is well known for its opening line: Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres... This military chronicle brings us back to a time when rules of engagement were very different to our own: today, Caesar would be facing charges of genocide at the International Criminal Court for wiping out the Helvetii, for example. The book is fascinating at times but is also repetitive - so many tribes gets you confused. But it allows us to see a very different morality to our own - Caesar naturally thought nothing of killing, ethnically cleansing or enslaving his enemies, as well as a picture of the lives of the european tribes that lived outside the Roman empire. A must for Asterix fans.
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