Did Sun Tzu Really Exist? The Mystery Behind The Art of War

The man behind the most quoted strategy book in history may never have existed. Professor Peter Lorge — one of the world's leading historians of Chinese military history — joins Amar Singh to dismantle an enduring myth in Western thought: the legend of Sun Tzu and The Art of War. What we call The Art of War isn't what it was called in ancient China. The figure of "Master Sun" is almost certainly a composite, assembled over centuries rather than the work of a singular battlefield genius. And the iconic title? An entirely Western construction.