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The Art Of War is a translation of Sun Tzu’s originally written book on battle strategies by author James Clavell. Sun Tzu believed war to be an essential wrongdoing that must be got rid of whenever it can be. The war should be fought fleetingly to reduce economic decline. Sun Tzu harped on the significance of placement in military tactics. The planning to position an army must be dependent on the stipulations in the physical surroundings and the subjective thoughts of various militants in those conditions. He believed that strategy cannot be considered as planning with respect to glancing through a previously decided list. It is better represented by the fact that it needs speedy and suitable reactions to altering situations. Planning gives results in restrained surroundings. But in case of an altering environment, similar plans come in each other’s ways and give rise to undesired outcomes. The book has been a profound factor in the workings of Eastern and Western military strategies, business planning, legal thought processes, and more. James Clavell was born in the year 1924 in Australia. He is best known as a novelist, screenwriter and director. In the year 1940, Clavell completed his secondary education at Portsmouth Grammar School. After that, he enrolled in the Royal Artillery to continue his family tradition. Due to the commencement of World War II, he was deployed to Malaya to face the Japanese. Injured by machine-gun shot, he finally gave in and was sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on Java. Afterwards, he was shifted to Singapore. Clavell was subjected to a lot of suffering by his Japanese capturers. By the year 1946, Clavell was given the rank of Captain, but a motorcycle tragedy put an abrupt end to his military campaign. He took admission at the University of Birmingham. In the year 1953, Clavell shifted to the United States and started living in Hollywood. He died of a stroke in the year 1994 in Switzerland while ailing from cancer. Apart from this book, James Clavell has written many other books like Noble House, King Rat, and The Children’s Story.