Sun Tzu's treatise treats conflict as a problem of preparation, terrain and timing, and its short sections have long outlived the wars they were written for.
Organised as a run of brief chapters covering planning, the costs of campaigning, manoeuvre, the use of ground and the value of information, the text argues repeatedly that the best result is the one reached with the least fighting. Readers in business, sport and negotiation return to it for exactly that reasoning, and the slim 116-page format makes rereading easy.
The short version:
• The classic treatise on strategy in a slim pocket edition
• Brief numbered sections on planning, terrain and information
• A 116-page paperback that travels well
• Reasoning applied well beyond the battlefield
Suited to readers of strategy, history and management alike, this Fingerprint! Publishing edition is stocked at Boipoka.