The Art of War War" and "Strategic Problems of China's Revolutionary War", and includes Mao's quote: "We must not belittle the saying in the book of Sun Wu Tzu, the great military expert of ancient China, 'Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a thousand battles without disaster." During the Vietnam War, some Vietcong officers extensively studied "The Art of War" and reportedly could recite entire passages from memory. General Võ Nguyên Giáp successfully implemented tactics described in "The Art of War" during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu ending major French involvement in Indochina and leading to the accords which
The Book of the Short Sun The Book of the Short Sun The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001) is a series of three science fantasy novels or one three-volume novel by the American author Gene Wolfe. It continues "The Book of the Long Sun" (1993–1996): they share a narrator and "Short Sun" recounts a search for Silk, the "Long Sun" hero. The two works are set in the same universe as "The Book of the New Sun" series that Wolfe inaugurated in 1980 and the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) catalogs all three as sub-series of the "Solar Cycle", along with some other writings. At