A new translation that captures the gripping power of one of the greatest war stories ever toldJulius Caesars pitiless account of his brutal campaign to conquer Gaul Imagine a book about an unnecessary war written by the ruthless general of an occupying armya vivid and dramatic propaganda piece that forces the reader to identify with the conquerors and that is designed like the war itself to fuel the limitless political ambitions of the author. Could such a campaign autobiography ever be a great work of literatureperhaps even one of the greatest It would be easy to think not but such a book existsand it helped transform Julius Caesar from a politician on the make into the Caesar of legend. This remarkable new translation of Caesars famous but underappreciated War for Gaul captures like never before in English the gripping and powerfully concise style of the future emperors dispatches from the front lines in what are today France Belgium Germany and Switzerland.