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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.