by Sun-Tzu (Author), John Minford (Translator)

The world's most famous military treatise, in an acclaimed translation

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Offering ancient wisdom on how to use skill, cunning, tactics and discipline to outwit your opponent, this bestselling 2000-year-old military manual is still worshipped by soldiers on the battlefield and managers in the boardroom as the ultimate guide to winning.

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Helps the reader apply the principles of military strategy to all challenges and conflicts of life.

Author Biography

Little is known about Sun-tzu (544-496 B.C.) and his life during the Warring States period after the decline of the Zhou dynasty, but his classic work, The Art of War, has been one of the central works of Chinese literature for 2500 years.

John Minford (editor/translator/introducer) is the translator of the acclaimed Penguin Classics edition of I, Ching and a professor of Chinese at the Australian National University in Canberra.