The Art of War
Translated by Lionel Giles, 1910 · Allandale Online Publishing, 2000
The classic Chinese treatise on strategy, in thirteen chapters: planning, deception, terrain, the use of spies, and winning without fighting.
The Art of War is traditionally credited to Sun Tzu (Sun Wu), a general said to have served the state of Wu around 500 BC. Lionel Giles (1875–1958), of the British Museum, published his English translation in 1910.
This copy is the free edition of Giles’s translation published by Allandale Online Publishing in 2000 and kept on Wikimedia Commons as public domain (66 pages).