I’m looking for separate books on The Gallic Wars. Not a translation but some of those books that gives explanations and helps you translate. I think you guys call it a commentary?
If you want grammatical explanations that help you translate, you need to find a “reader” designed for students of Latin. You can find any old book, or textbook, nowadays on sites such as ABE books. An example of such a “reader” is A Latin Reader by John C. Rolfe and Walter Dennison, with a copyright date of 1918. The book contains various selections of Latin authors, including what seems like most of Caesar’s commentary. The notes that explain the grammar take up as much space on the pages as does the text of the Latin. The introduction to the book even devotes 30 pages to describing, with words and pictures, the weapons of war, the layout of the camps, etc, etc, of Caesar’s army.
I suggest you start with this https://geoffreysteadman.com/caesar-de-bello-gallico-1/ Or this https://geoffreysteadman.com/college-caesar/
Steadman’s material is really good -not just the Caesar material. Not too basic and not too complicated. And you can get it for free.
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I you want to read more Latin instead of using commentaries in English, you can use simplified editions of Caesar as preparatory work, like the Tirocinium Caesarianum (book I of BG), Tirocinium Caesarianum (books II and III of BG) or Collar’s The Gate to Caesar for instance.
I should also have pointed out the Dickinson College commentary. The resources available here are useful and can be used with Steadman. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/caesar/caesar-introduction
Kelsey’s commentary available from archive.org dates from 1918 and is also helpful.