The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Dec 2020 · Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing · Narrated by Kenneth Elliot

About this audiobook

The Art of War, literally The Laws of War by Master Sun is the most famous ancient Chinese treatise, dedicated to a military strategy and policy, written by Sun Tzu. The treatise by Sun Tzu influenced crucially on a whole military art of the East. Although it is the first treatise on the military art, it includes clearly expressed common principles of strategy as well as tactics. A special place in a military theoretical literature belongs to comments on Sun Tzu, the earliest of which appeared in the Han era (206-220 AD), and the new ones are still being created...

The traditional story of Lao-Tzu is that he was a 6th-century B.C.E. philosopher and teacher in China. Indeed, his very name means 'Old Master.' Lao-Tzu was a keeper of records for the Zhou Dynasty while he also taught philosophy to any who would listen. One of these, purportedly, was the giant of Chinese philosophy, Confucius, who in his own writings speaks of meeting with Lao-Tzu. 

The Art of War is divided into 13 chapters:  

Laying Plans

Waging War

Attack by Stratagem

Tactical Dispositions

Use of Energy

Weak Points and Strong

Maneuvering an Army

Variation of Tactics

The Army on the March

Classification of Terrain

The Nine Situations

Attack by Fire

Use of Spies

Ratings and reviews

The book is a good book but I think the reader isn't the best. He mispronounced several words. I never thought to pronounce chasm and machinations with a ch- like church. I think he was trying so hard to speak clearly that he tripped himself up.

The narrator did not prepare to read this book. Many errors of pronunciation. Many errors of syntax. Disjointed and choppy. A very poor job overall that detracted from the listener's enjoyment of the work itself. Download a different version.

Worst narrated book ever. You don't read verse numbers when reading a book..