Description
Julius Caesar is our travel guide as he takes us through his murderous subjugation of the native Celtic tribal peoples of ancient Gaul. It sounds vaguely like other, recent European colonial conquests…until the natives nearly win.
Dan’s research and book list
1. “The Geography of Strabo: An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes” by Duane W. Roller
2. “Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words” by Andrew M. Riggsby
3. “The Ancient Celts” by Barry Cunliffe
4. “The Celts: Origins, Myths and Inventions” by John Collis
5. “History of Rome” by Michael Grant
6. “Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume I” by Walter J. Renfroe Jr. and Hans Delbrück
7. “Caesar The Gallic War: Seven Commentaries on The Gallic War with an Eighth Commentary” by Aulus Hirtius: A New Translation by Julius Caesar and Carolyn Hammond
8. “The Celtic World” by Miranda Green
9. “The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of the History of Rome from its Foundation” by Titus Livy and Aubrey de Selincourt
10. “Alesia 52 BC: The final struggle for Gaul” by Nic Fields and Peter Dennis
11. “Tacitus: The Agricola and The Germania (Penguin Classics)” by James Rives and Harold Mattingly
12. “Diodorus Siculus I: The Historical Library in Forty Books (Volume 1)” by Giles Laurén
13. “The Conquest of Gaul (Penguin Classics)” by Jane P. Gardner and S. A. Handford
14. “War, Women, and Druids: Eyewitness Reports and Early Accounts of the Ancient Celts” by Philip Freeman
15. “Caesar: Life of a Colossus” by Adrian Goldsworthy
16. “Caesar and Christ (Story of Civilization)” by Will Durant
17. “The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics”) by Suetonius
18. “Celts and the Classical World” by David Rankin
19. “Rubicon” by Tom Holland
20. “Roman Warfare (Cassell’s History of Warfare)” by Adrian Goldsworthy
21. “Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics)” by Plutarch and Arthur Hugh Clough
22. “Roman Conquests: Gaul” by Michael M. Sage
23. “The Celtic Empire: The First Millennium of Celtic History, C. 1000 BC-51 AD” by Peter Berresford Ellis
24. “The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies” by Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses
25. “The Cutting Edge: Military History of Antiquity and Early Feudal Times (American University Studies)” by Paul F. Gavaghan
26. “Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, and Warfare in the Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome” by John Warry
27. “The Twelve Caesars” by Suetonius and Michael Grant
28. “War and Society in Early Rome: From Warlords to Generals” by Jeremy Armstrong
29. “The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World” by Michael Howard and George Andreopoulos
30. “The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the Present, 2nd Revised Edition” by Richard Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy
31. “Ancient Warfare” by John Carmen and Anthony Harding
32. “The Gallic Wars” by Julius Caesar and Thomas Holmes
33. “The Gallic Wars” by Julius Caesar and W. A. Macdevitt