de Bello Gallico & Other Commentaries of Caius Julius Caesar - Paperback

by W. A. Macdevitt (Translator), Thomas Dequincey (Introduction by)

Conqueror of Western Europe, emperor of Rome, JULIUS CAESAR (44 B.C.-100 B.C.) is considered one of the keenest political and military minds of all time, and his commentaries on his own campaigns rank with Sun-Tzu's The Art of War as required reading for anyone who wishes to grasp the soldierly skills of tactics and strategy. In this 1915 edition-MacDevitt's translation is considered masterful-we are privileged with Caesar's firsthand accounts of his war in Gaul and his own civil war. Discover... . how to negotiate a surrender . how to motivate troops in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds . where to establish a strategic camp . how to use even poor weather to your best advantage . how to take advantage of unfavorable ground . and much more.