Click or press enter to view the items in your shopping bag or press tab to interact with the shopping bag tooltip. Librivox recording of the art of war by sun tzu, translated by lionel giles. If you hoped for originality, or a touchyfeely art iseasy book. Sun tzu outlines, in great detail, the necessary components to waging a war from logistics, to timing, to morale, and of course tactics. Many of our biblio booksellers offer antique and rare civil war books that would add great value to your book collection. Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Collected here in this 4in1 omnibus are the most important books ever written on the art of war. Dubbing itself a cross between suntzus the art of war and julie camerons the artists way, pressfields book. Drawing on episodes from the panorama of chinese history, mastering the art of war presents practical summaries of these essential laws along with tales of conflict and strategy that show in concrete terms the proper use of sun tzus principles. For years the art of war has been used to help people when making a strategy in a military situation.
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