title: The Art of War: The New Translation (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
author:  Sun-Tzu 
description: &#8220;There is no doubt that J. H. Huang&#8217;s new translation of Sun Tzu will be valuable to anyone who is a student of <I>The Art of War.</I> It will be used by scholars for years to come.&#8221; (General Norman Schwarzkopf)
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  INTRODUCTION.
  
  
  
  
  
  LIKE a song without words, so may history be written. Indeed, a few sheets of
  the simple music known as the " Songs of the War " awaken a better memory of
  that struggle, and would more fitly open this work, than anything which may
  otherwise be said.
  
  
  
  
  
  The chief, if not the only worth in a tale of great deeds, is truth, and this
  cannot be told either to the ear, or in print, so that all of it may lie held
  at once in the mind, fully and exactly. Words can only show things one after
  another, and some that are but parts of a whole are forgotten or crowded out,
  before the rest can be brought forward. Add to this, that no one man can see
  or know all that