Strategy, power and the price of victory — from Sun Tzu to Suvorov.
Wrote a treatise on war where the highest art is to win without fighting.
Japan's undefeated swordsman, author of “The Book of Five Rings” on the way of strategy.
United the steppes under a single law and built a realm from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian.
By thirty he had built the greatest empire of antiquity — from Greece to the Indus.
Crossed the Rubicon, crushed the Gauls and Pompey, became dictator — and fell to daggers on the Ides of March.
For fifteen years he kept Rome in fear, crossed the Alps with elephants — and never took the Eternal City.
From lieutenant to emperor and back: a path that redrew the map of Europe.
The science of victory — brief and with a jest.
Cut a window through — and spare neither yourself nor others.
Gave up Moscow to save the army, and outplayed Napoleon with patience.