I learned a lot from this book and recommend it for anyone seeking an introduction to Caesar. The writing itself was workmanlike but good enough to let the subject carry the reader through the material. The author's strength is military history, which occupies about half of the narrative. The political half is still interesting but clearly out of his expertise, though he is good enough. The author is not one to weave a conjectural projection by filling in the gaps of the historical record with his own thoughts, so the effect is dry but historiographical at points (though this is not a formal academic work by any means).

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