SUN TZŬ

ON THE

ART OF WAR

THE OLDEST MILITARY TREATISE IN THE WORLD

TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE WITH INTRODUCTION AND CRITICAL NOTES

BY

LIONEL GILES, M.A.

Assistant in the Department of Oriental Printed Books & MSS. in the British Museum.

London: Luzac and Co.

[1910]

Scanned, proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare at sacred-texts.com, August 2008. This text is in the public domain because it was published prior to 1923.

To my brother
Captain Valentine Giles, R.C.
in the hope that
a work 2400 years old
may yet contain lessons worth consideration
by the soldier of today
this translation
is affectionately dedicated.