See Project Gutenberg's eBook #17405 for this same text without the translator's annotations, and an HTML version.

Wikipedia page on this work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War

Release date is 1994-05-01

"The Art of War" by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the 5th century BC. Composed of 13 chapters, this influential work explores military strategy, tactics, intelligence operations, and the art of warfare. For nearly 1,500 years, it served as the lead text in China's Seven Military Classics. The treatise has shaped military thinking worldwide, inspiring leaders from Mao Zedong to Douglas MacArthur with its timeless principles of strategy and discipline. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: , 1910

Translated from the Chinese by Lionel Giles, M.A. (1910)