Sun Tzu, the great Chinese military strategist, wrote The Art of War in the fifth century BC. The ancient treatise contains 13 chapters, each devoted to different aspects of warfare: strategy, discipline, weaponry, espionage, and so forth. The text appears in the Seven Military Classics of the Song Dynasty Emperor Shenzong, first published in A.D. 1080. A Jesuit priest translated it into French in 1772; Lionel Giles produced the definitive, annotated English-language edition in 1910. Always popular in ancient and medieval China, The Art of War influenced the thinking of Mao Zedong, Douglas MacArthur, and the brilliant Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap. This is a bronze Sung Dynasty cash coin from the reign of Shenzong, 1068-1086.
This 1000 won banknote, P-8, was issued by the Republic of Korea in 1950, the year the war began. It features a portrait of Syngman Rhee, the Korean nationalist who was the president of South Korea...
The five notes in this set were printed by and circulated in various provinces of the Philippines during the Japanese occupation during World War II. During the occupation, possession of guerilla...
When is a nickel not a nickel? From 1942-45. The United States declared war on Imperial Japan on December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor, and on Nazi Germany three days laterthus officially...
