Books that mention Commentaries on the Gallic War (5)
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: “It was “Cæsar’s Commentaries,” which La Ramee had lent him, contrary to the orders of the governor”
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller: “was just beginning to read Caesar's "Gallic War" when I went to my home in Alabama.”
Truman by David McCullough: “Harry built a wooden model of Caesar's bridge over the Rhine "as described in Caesar's Commentaries" during his Latin studies”
Waverley by Walter Scott: “which may be observed less or more in every work in which the third person is used, from the Commentaries of Caesar to the Autobiography of Alexander the Corrector.”
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett: “The North Briton, who was as great a pedant as the physician, having studied fortification, and made himself master of Caesar's Commentaries and Polybius, with the observations of Folard, affirmed, that all the methods of besieging practised by the ancients would be utterly ineffectual against such a plan a…”