Customer Reviews
Enthralling! - By: Roman Clodia, 18 Aug 2006 
As a great fan of Caesar, I loved this. It's surprisingly enthrallling once you get into it, but takes a bit of work to start, especiallly if you're not familiar with the setting & political background.
Originallly written as a series of despatches to the Senate back in Rome, it is undoubtedly propaganda created by Caesar to justify his own conquests, & make sly digs at his enemies back in Rome.
Starting with his departure from Rome in 58bc after his consulship, this takes in the battles against the rebellion under Vercongetorix as well as the abortive first invasion of Britain.
It might not be to everyone's taste, but I think Caesar's an elegant & lucid writer who uses understatement as a style factor.
The Penguin volume is excellent, with an easy, free-flowing translations, an introduction outlining the background, a glossary of people & terms, & maps of Gaul. Altogether, a bargain.
Taedet me huius libris...I think - By: J. Coffey, 06 Aug 2006 
Galllia est in partes divisa tris. Well I'd shred this tome into far more parts than that! Caesar is a uniquely boring writer with a knack for making the most exciting battles into an excruciating protracted yawn. Forsan et haec olim meminesse juvabit! I don't think so.
Dabit deus his quoque finem! but that was Vergil of course.
Enjoyable and lively translation - By: , 29 Dec 2000 
I reallly enjoyed this translation of Julius Caesar's account of his wars against the Gauls a lot more than the original Latin version. Maybe it's because I'm more comfortable with English than Latin..... Room for improvement: I would have liked a few more explanatory notes here & there & maybe a couple of maps of the areas of the campaigns.
