Book · 500 BC · Nonfiction

The Art of War

Name: The Art of War
Author: Sun Tzu

Charles E Tuttle Co · 109 pages

★ 7.3 editorial score

Win without fighting, Sun Tzu writes, and he means it literally. Twenty-five centuries ago this Chinese general reduced war to deception, terrain, and knowing the enemy as thoroughly as you know yourself.

Genre

Military treatise

Subject

Leadership Military strategy War

Setting

China

Time

500 BCDepicts Ancient World

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