One expects a simple, straight-forward prose from a general, but no one expects elegance! Caesar, however, without intending to, wrote very well, and, as a result, these are the only commentaries on campaigns written by their general from the ancient world that have come down to us. The conquest of Gaul, or modern France, interestingly, wasn't even Caesar's intention, as he moved his troops to Illyricum in Greece after his first year in the province. Internal strife, however, called him back, as those revolutionary French repeatedly attempted to assert their independence. Caesar's marches find him flirting with the barbarians of Germany, the Suebi, who considered it an honor to have no one living near them for as far a distance as possible (and I've heard people wonder why fascism arose in Germany). Caesar ends up off the cliffs of Dover and discovers Britain for some reason (he doesn't say), and then puts down a rebellion, led by Vercingetorix, culminating in the tremendously dramatic Battle of Alesia, which, apart from the importance of the author, really distinguishes this book as an interesting history. Many books are unjustly forgotten, but none are unjustly remembered, and so it is with this book by the secular Jesus.