 The dramatic story of the campaigns of 58 to 53 B.C. in which Julius Caesar and his Roman Legions conquered Gaul modern day France. Caesar s intervention in the brutal Gallic inter-tribal warfare was originally prompted by genuine concern for Italian security, but as the campaign developed, Rome s greatest commander began to hatch plans for full conquest. Remarkably, Julius Caesar s own account of the Gallic Wars have survived to this very day. Superb depictions of life in Gaul in the first century B.C.