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Sun Tzu

The Art of War

China, c. 5th century BC · Chinese strategy

$19 3 formats

Thirteen chapters on winning without fighting, from the oldest surviving manual on strategy. Our edition takes Lionel Giles’s 1910 translation as its base and adds a short introduction, chapter summaries and notes.

Translated by Lionel Giles (1910). Introduced and annotated by the War Philosophy editors.

  • Formats: Paperback · Ebook · Audiobook
  • Length: 176 pages · 2 h 40 min
  • Series: Chinese strategy
  • Edition: War Philosophy, 2026
About this edition

Sun Tzu’s text is short enough to read in an evening and deep enough to re-read for a lifetime. This edition keeps the thirteen chapters whole, sets each on its own spread, and adds a one-paragraph summary at the head of every chapter so the argument can be followed at a glance.

What’s inside
  • The complete thirteen chapters
  • Chapter summaries and notes
  • A short introduction to the text and its history
  • Index
Editions & formats

Paperback

Bone cover, ink lettering, printed to order.

Ebook

EPUB and PDF, delivered to your account at once.

Audiobook

MP3 chapters in your account.

About the author

Sun Tzu

c. 544–496 BC · State of Qi, China; served the state of Wu

A general of the state of Wu in the late sixth century BC, by tradition the author of the thirteen chapters that bear his name. Little is known of his life beyond Sima Qian’s account, written four centuries later. The text itself is the evidence: terse, practical, and concerned above all with winning before the battle begins.

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