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.