The Art of War

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Introduction:

Sun Tzu He was a Chinese general who lived around the 5th century BC.

The collection of essays on The Art of War attributed to Sun Tzu is the oldest known treatise on the subject. Despite its age, the advice is still valid.

The Art of War inspired Napoleon, Machiavelli, Mao Tse Tung and many more historical figures. This two-five-hundred-thousand-year-old book is one of the most important Chinese classical texts and is not just a book of military practice, it is a work to understand the roots of a conflict and seek a solution. “The best victory is to win without fighting,” Sun Tzu tells us, “and that is the distinction between the prudent man and the ignorant man.”

-Summary of the prologue of the Universal Virtual Library

 

The Art of War (Rewritten by me) – Simplified Book

ten chapters They form my adaptation of the book, where you will find the original and most useful ideas of the original version grouped in a more coherent and less repetitive way.

The original writings had very few connecting links between sentences, so it was quite a heavy read for me, and together with the amount of repeated ideas and misplaced advice, it seemed reasonable to me to rewrite the book without changing the main teachings and warnings of its author. .

The Art of War (Summary) - Book Summary

Thirteen chapters. Due to the difficult understanding of the book and my persistent interest in understanding each chapter and analyzing each advice, I decided, from each section, to extract the most relevant and useful data when it came to understanding the military strategy of that time.

The Art of War (Universal Virtual Library) – Book

Translation and adaptation of writings  by the online «publishing» https://www.biblioteca.org.ar/

Book of thirteen chapters which, personally, I have found quite confusing and difficult to understand, because it is an almost direct translation of the original writings and these, although they cite very interesting advice, present a fairly considerable disorder, where you will find repeated or out-of-order texts. your chapter.

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