Sun Tzu Art of War" of all surviving texts. Sun Tzu's "Art of War" has influenced many notable figures. The Chinese historian Sima Qian recounted that China's first historical emperor, Qin's Shi Huangdi, considered the book invaluable in ending the time of the Warring States. In the 20th century, the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong partially credited his 1949 victory over Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang to "The Art of War". The work strongly influenced Mao's writings about guerrilla warfare, which further influenced communist insurgencies around the world. "The Art of War" was introduced into Japan and the book quickly became popular
The Book of the Long Sun The Book of the Long Sun The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996) is a series of four science fantasy novels or one four-volume novel by the American author Gene Wolfe. It is set in the same universe as "The Book of the New Sun" series that Wolfe inaugurated in 1980, and the Internet Science Fiction Database catalogs them both as sub-series of the "Solar Cycle", along with other writings. The "Long Sun" story is continued in "The Book of the Short Sun" (1999–2001), a series of three novels or one in three volumes. In "Short Sun" the relation to