"De Bello Gallico" & Other Commentaries of Caius Julius CaesarConqueror 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. |
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Page xxi - Was Caesar, upon the whole, the greatest of men ? We restrict the question, of course, to the classes of men great in action ; great by the extent of their influence over their social contemporaries ; great by throwing open avenues to extended powers that previously had been closed ; great by making obstacles once vast to become trivial; or prizes that once were trivial to be glorified by expansion.