Sun Tzu
496 BCE - Outside Gusu
Outside Gusu, in a borrowed room above a boat-shed, the strategist whose principles shaped warfare for two thousand years sets down what the generals always misunderstand.
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496 BCE - Outside Gusu
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Outside Gusu, in a borrowed room above a boat-shed, the strategist whose principles shaped warfare for two thousand years sets down what the generals always misunderstand.
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1820 - Longwood House, Saint Helena
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Exiled to a rock in the Atlantic, a fallen emperor dictates the version of events his enemies will never be able to answer.
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1955 - Hyde Park Gate, London
war-and-command
A contrasting life shaped by war and command.
After the war, after the applause, after the second stroke — a prime minister reckons with what victory actually cost.
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war-and-command
A contrasting life shaped by war and command.
Dying at thirty-two in Babylon, a conqueror dictates the truth his generals will try to bury.
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1865 - White House, Washington
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A contrasting life shaped by war and command.
In the final winter of the Civil War, a president confronts the distance between saving the Union and saving himself.
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