Praises

�The Art of War is almost certainly the most famous study of strategy ever written and has had an extraordinary influence on the history of warfare. The principles Sun Tzu expounded were utilized brilliantly by great Asian war leaders as MaoTse-Tung, Giap, and Yamamoto. First translated two hundred years ago by a French missionary, Sun Tzu�s Art of War has been credited with influencing Napoleon, the German General Staff, and even the planning for Desert Storm. Many Japanese companies make this book required reading for their key executives. And increasingly, Western businesspeople and others are turning to The Art of War for inspiration and advice on how to succeed in competitive situations all kinds.�

Ralph D.Sawyer
Historian

�The reasons that classics remain classics over thousands of years, as The Art of War has remained along with the works of the original Confucian and Taoist sages, seems to be that they continue to have meaning. This continuing meaning, moreover, is not experienced only over generations. On a small scale, a classsic yields significantly different meanings when read in different circumstances and moods; on a larger scale, a classic conveys wholly different worlds when read in different times of life, at different stages of experience, feeling, and understanding of life. Classics may be interesting and even entertaining but people always find they are not like books used for diversion, which give up all their content at once; the classics seem to grow wiser as we grow wiser, more useful the more we use them.���

Thomas Cleary
Translator of numerous works in Buddhist, Taoist, and I Ching studies.