The Book of War: Includes The Art of War by Sun Tzu & On War by Karl von Clausewitz

Author Sun Tzu and Carl von Clausewitz

Introduction by Ralph Peters

Series edited by Caleb Carr

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The Book of War: Includes The Art of War by Sun Tzu & On War by Karl von Clausewitz

Two classic works of military strategy that shaped the way we think about warfare: The Art of War by Sun Tzu and On War by Karl von Clausewitz, together in one volume

“Civilization might have been spared much of the damage suffered in the world wars . . . if the influence of Clausewitz’s On War had been blended with and balanced by a knowledge of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.”—B. H. Liddel Hart

For two thousand years, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War has been the indispensable volume of warcraft. Although his work is the first known analysis of war and warfare, Sun Tzu struck upon a thoroughly modern concept: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”

Karl von Clausewitz, the canny military theorist who…

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Sun Tzu is thought to have been a military general and adviser to the king of the southern Chinese state of Wu during the sixth century BCE. Although some modern scholars have called his authorship into doubt, the world's most influential and enduring treatise on military strategy, The Art of War, bears his name.

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The Book of War: Includes The Art of War by Sun Tzu & On War by Karl von Clausewitz

Sun Tzu and Karl von Clausewitz

Karl Von Clausewitz (1780-1831) was a Prussian soldier who fought in the Moscow campaigns of 1812 and 1813. He spent over a dozen years writing On War, dying before his book saw publication in 1832.