Princeton: The Princeton Press, 2015. — 188 p. This unique manuscript, discovered in the Garrett Collection of Arabic Manuscripts at Princeton University Library, is the only known treatise available in English on the archery of the medieval Orient. It is considered by Dr. Faris and Dr. Elmer as equal in merit to the nearly contemporary Toxophilus, or the Schole of Shootynge,...
NYU Press, 2019. — 341 p. This collection includes the major military tactical and historical writings of General Vo Nguyen Giap, who, on the evidence of his record as well as his theoretical work, has long been recognized as one of the military geniuses of modern times, and, along with Mao Tse-tung, the greatest modern practitioner and theorist of the art of people's warfare....
Westview Press, 1996. — 320 p. One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies was compiled in the fifteenth century, during the Ming Dynasty, as a handbook of tactics based on Chinese military classics. Translated into English for the first time, this unique work draws on over two thousand years of experience in warfare to present a distillation of one hundred key strategic principles....
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. — 224 p. Composed by Li Ch'üan (Li Quan), a provincial military official who served in the middle T'ang dynasty, the T'ai-pai Yin-ching revitalized the theoretical study of warfare in China. Remarkably comprehensive, it first focuses upon the human realm, devoting a quarter of its hundred chapters to the grand issues of...
Translated, with introduction and commentary by Ralph D. Sawyer — Westview Press, 1995. — 414 p. The enormous recent popularity in America of Sun-tzu's Art of War has heightened awareness of the great Chinese tradition of writing on theory and practice of war. This tradition has always emphasized that warfare is as much the deployment of spiritual and mental forces as of combat...
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