Reddit reviews The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works: Gallic War, Civil War, Alexandrian War, African War, and Spanish War

You can sort-of compromise by reading the Landmark edition

This includes maps etc. which might help you follow the action.

They also published a bunch of appendices/annexes/essays online (previous books just included these in the print version, but by making them online a side-effect is they're free)

If you go with the secondary source option, I'd consider Caesar, by Adrian Goldsworthy (haven't actually read it, but have read lots of others by him and they're great, and reviews of it draw attention to the Gallic Wars analysis being great as the writer is a military historian

Just a heads up that Landmark Pantheon is publishing The Landmark Julius Caesar with an expected October release. If I'm reading the fuzzy cover right, it's a new translation by Kurt Raaflaub but the other Landmark books are top notch with great maps, annotations, and a lot of other good stuff.

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If you aren't looking for it in Latin, there is a fancy new edition in the Landmark series: https://www.amazon.com/Landmark-Julius-Caesar-Complete-Alexandrian/dp/0307377865