ART OF WAR

From the editor: Like Machiavelli's The Prince and the Japanese Book of Five Rings, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is as timely for business people today as it was for military strategists in ancient China. Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also relevant economic, political, and psychological factors. Indeed, the precepts outlined by Sun Tzu are regularly applied outside the realm of military theory. It is read avidly by Japanese businessmen and was touted in the movie Wall Street as the corporate raider's bible.

In this classic translation, Samuel B. Griffith has made this powerful and unique work even more relevant to the modern world. Including an explanatory introduction and selected commentaries on the work, this edition makes Sun Tzu's strategic and tactical principles accessible not only to students of Chinese history and culture, but to anyone interested in simply getting ahead of the competition.

"The hottest new book of Oriental philosophy is more than 2,400 years old ....The tactics of war taught by Sun Tzu can provide a guide as helpful in getting ahead as any of the `Looking Out for No. 1' genre of pop psychology and positivism." -The Los Angeles Herald Examiner

"The Art of War is among the greatest classics of military literature ever written. Sun Tzu's warfare is as applicable today as when the book was written some 2,500 years ago... Pick up The Art of War and read it." -General A.M. Gray, Marine Corps Gazette

"Samuel Griffith's original and scholarly translation of The Art of War shows how good scholarship can make an easily readable translation that is much more useful to modern readers." -The Philadelphia Inquirer

The late Samuel B. Griffith is the author of The Battle for-Guadalcanal and the editor and translator of Mao Tse-tung: "On Guerilla War:"

Pages: 197
Special Interest: Warrior Philosophy, Methodology, Comparative & Critical Analysis, Military, History, Corporate Business, Law, Religion.

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