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The Art of WarThe oldest and most influential treatise on strategy ever written distils warfare, and all conflict, into terse, luminous maxims on deception, timing, terrain, and the supreme skill of winning without fighting. Studied for two and a half thousand years.
The most quoted strategy book in history, short, sharp, and endlessly applicable far beyond war, from boardrooms to chessboards. Read it in an hour and ponder it for life.
The Warring States era of ancient China, an age of ceaseless conflict between rival kingdoms that made the science of strategy a matter of survival.