The Art of War, 9780143037521
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Ancient wisdom: Skill, cunning, and tactics to conquer any battlefield.

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    112 pages

  • Release Date

    30 May 2006

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Summary

The Art of War: Master the Battlefield and the Boardroom

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

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143037521
ISBN-10:0143037528
Series:Penguin Great Ideas
Author:Sun-tzu, John Minford
Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:Penguin USA
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:30 May 2006
Weight:74g
Dimensions:180mm x 110mm x 8mm
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Critics Review

“The strategic advice that [The Art of War] offers concerns much more than the conduct of war. It is an ancient book of proverbial wisdom, a book of life.” (John Minford, from the Introduction)

“The strategic advice that [The Art of War] offers concerns much more than the conduct of war. It is an ancient book of proverbial wisdom, a book of life.” —John Minford, from the Introduction

About The Author

Sun-tzu

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.

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