Treat conquest as politics, not backdrop

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Goldsworthy treats Caesar's Gallic Wars seriously as a political and military achievement rather than as scenic backdrop for the more dramatic civil war. Reading the campaigns on their own terms reframes eight years of brutal expansion as the engine that built the loyalty, wealth, and veteran army Caesar would later wield against Rome itself.

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