Art of War. Sun Tzu

Immortal literary monument - the treatise “The Art of the War” of the greatest commander and thinker of the ancient China Sun - Zi (VI -V centuries BC - this is the quintessence of military wisdom, saturated with many bright details and concrete examples of actions of the military leader and his army It is not known on the battlefield, the only author of this great book is the military leader of one of the specific kingdoms of Ancient China named Sun U, nicknamed “Sun - Zi” - “Teacher Sun”, or in the “art of war”, the experience of several generations of the sages was brought together - strategists who summarized victories and comprehended defeats in countless wars who fought together the specific kingdoms of China fragmented in those days.

another thing is important: the book Sun - Tzu set a separate direction in Chinese thought of the next two and a half thousand years She not only created the grounds for the emergence of comments and interpretations for it, some of which are given in this publication, but also gave rise to a separate literary genre - the sage of the sage’s brief instructions on the laws of the country's management and techniques that allow you to win in any circumstances. The proposed publication contains six more works of this genre created under the influence of the Sun -Zi treatise.

the influence of this book on the state and military thought of the East is difficult to overestimate. For thousands of years, the rulers and generals of Asia, conceiving their conquering campaigns, turned to the treatise of Sun - Zi. It is known that he was highly appreciated by Japanese samurai. The first professional European reader to put the principles of Sun - Zi in practice was Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Nowadays, the ancient “art of war” attracts not so much rulers and their generals as businessmen who successfully use the provisions of the “art of war” for the tasks of management and conflict resolution.

The proposed edition is accompanied by many unique illustrations, which together with The text and extensive comments allows you to expand before the reader an impressive picture of intrigues and military strife in ancient China in the middle of the first millennium BC. e.