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Nonfiction · Military treatise

The Art of War

Sun Tzu
500 BC · 109 pages

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.

★ 7.3