Caesar's own clipped, third-person account of his conquest of Gaul, at once a military record and a work of political self-promotion. Its clear Latin has made it a staple of classrooms for centuries.
Sources for Julius Caesar — The Gallic Wars
Julius Caesar — The Gallic Wars in War & Military Thought
Held in the War & Military Thought chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Tjaneni — An Account of the Battle of Megiddo (−1457)
- Sun Tzu — The Art of War (−500)
- Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War (−400)
- Xenophon — Anabasis (The March of the Ten Thousand) (−370)
- Arrian — The Anabasis of Alexander (150)
- Carl von Clausewitz — On War (1832)
- Antoine-Henri Jomini — The Art of War (1838)