About the book:
Author: Samuel B Griffith, Sun-Tzu,
Publish Date: September 1971
Publisher: Oxford University Press
About the Author:
The late Samuel B. Griffith is the creator of The Battle for Guadalcanal and the manager and interpreter of Mao Tse-tung: “On Guerilla War”.
Review:
Like many other wonder works by the author The Art of War has a precise timing even today, the book have same importance for the business men ass it was for the military strategists in ancient China.
The book was written over 2000 years ago and is first known book for military conduct and operation.
These brisk, aphoristic papers are unsurpassed in thoroughness and profundity of comprehension, looking at theater of operations moves, as well as applicable monetary, political, and mental components. To be sure, the statutes laid out by Sun Tzu normally connected outside the domain of military hypothesis.
Japanese business men give this book as much importance as they do to anything else to make their business successful.
Samuel B Griffith has done a magnificent work by translating this classic book but not only that, he has also made the book much more relevant to the modern standards and studies.
The explanations in the book are amazing and Samuel B Griffith has passed his own remarks, where required to make the book much more easy and accessible to the modern readers.
Samuel B Griffith has done a fantastic work, because while translating ancient Chinese someone can lost in the translation and can deviate from the theme of the book or can pass the idea based upon his own thinking rather than derived from the book being translated.
The book focuses on the three basic points of war:
1- You Should Know Yourself
2- Analyze what you are up against
3- Do not start fighting while you know you will lose
What Others Say About The Book:
“The Art of War is among the greatest classics of military literature ever written. Sun Tzu warfare is as applicable today as when the book was written some 2,500 years ago….Pick up The Art of War and read it.”–General A.M. Gray, Marine Corps Gazette
“As a reflection of the Chinese mind, this little work is as relevant as any Confucian classic.”–The Times (London)
“Westerners have dozens of books to choose from if they want to learn about Japanese philosophy and military tactics….But when the Japanese, especially those in business, want information on the subject, many turn to an ancient Chinese, not Japanese, military manual, The Art of War….Shows managers how to be fearless in resolving conflicts.”–Boardroom Reports
“Shows managers how to be fearless in resolving conflicts.”–Boardroom Reports
“A brief tract on strategy that has been admired in China for centuries. Some of Mao Tse Tung’s most eloquent thoughts are merely rehashes of Sun Tzu and his interpreters.”–The Los Angeles Herald Examiner
“Samuel Griffith’s original and scholarly translation of The Art of War shows how good scholarship can make an easily readable translation that is much more useful to modern readers.”–The Philadelphia Inquirer.