The Art of War (Full Text): Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Translated by Lionel Giles

by Junji Kamakura, Sinsei Watanabe, Kamakura Fellowship Foundation (Editor)

'The Art of War' is the translation of 'Sun Tzu', an extremely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy, by the prodigious sinologist of the British Empire, Lionel Giles (1875 - 1958). This book contains the full text of 1910 translation of The Art of War and newly compiled two provocative essays on The Art of War by KFF (Kamakura Fellowship Foundation in Japan) senior researchers for readers in English speaking areas. The essays are titled as follows: "Comments on The Art of War and its Relations with Laws in Modern Society" (Arthur Dr. S WATANABE) and "The Art of War Evaluation: How to Appreciate 'Sun Tzu'?" (Arthur Junji KAMAKURA).
This digital book has the Outline of Contents with hyper links.
PROLOGUE: 'The Art of War' Evaluation
PART A: Lionel Giles’s The Art of War in Full Text
I.LAYING PLANS
II.WAGING WAR
III.ATTACK BY STRATAGEM
IV.TACTICAL DISPOSITIONS
V.ENERGY
VI.WEAK POINTS AND STRONG
VII.MANEUVERING
VIII.VARIATION IN TACTICS
IX. THE ARMY ON THE MARCH
X.TERRAIN
XI.THE NINE SITUATIONS
XII.THE ATTACK BY FIRE
XIII.THE USE OF SPIES
PART B: Rendering of Original 'Sun Tzu' and Giles’s 'The Art of War' into Japanese and Comparison and Analysis of the two.
EPILOGUE

309 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 22, 2014

Reviews

[Oliver Bateman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wouldn’t read as much into this document as your typical sales and marketing mindset influencer does, but it’s an interesting historical work that captures some basic points about warfare and strategy

[Erik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not an ideal reading in the translated versions, thought of a better read but this disappoints.

[Alice McGuire · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not generally my go 2 choice of reading but actually really informative and yet somehow seemingly poetic