The Civil War is Caesar`s masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey`s death and the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year. His unfinished account of the continuing struggle with Pompey`s heirs and followers is completed by the three anonymous accounts of the Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars, which bring the story down to within a year of Caesar`s assassination in March 44 B.C.

This generously annotated edition places the war in context and enables the reader to grasp it both in detail and as a whole.