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Title:
The Art of War
Author:
Sunzi, active 6th century B.C.
Personal Author:
Sunzi, active 6th century B.C.
Uniform Title:
Sunzi bing fa. English
Physical Description:
lvi, 325 pages ; 20 cm.
Series:
Penguin Classics

Penguin classics.
Summary:
For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's "The Art of War" has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success.
Language:
English
Contents:
The Art of war -- Making of plans -- Waging of war -- Strategic offensive -- Forms and dispositions -- Potential energy -- Empty and full -- The Fray -- The Nine charges -- On the march -- Forms of terrain -- The Nine kinds of ground -- Attack by fire -- Espionage -- The Art of war with commentary.
Subject Term:
Military art and science -- China -- Early works to 1800.

Military art and science. (OCoLC)fst01020874
Geographic Term:
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
Genre:
Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
Added Author:
Minford, John.
ISBN:
9780143105756
Format :
Book

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