The Secret Art of War: Thirty-Six Strategies is a book, written by an anonymous scholar about three hundred years ago, dealing almost exclusively on deceptive schemes on military strategy. In addition to the precise translation of the ancient work, The Wiles of War provides for each of the thirty-six strategies a lucid explanation, quotations for reference from other military classics, and the account of an ancient battle featuring the successful application of the strategy. The reader will have an oppotunity to grasp the essence of ancient Chinese warcraft by reading about some of the epoch-making battles in ancient China.
