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  1. 09-29-2011, 02:37 PM #1
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    Default Books For the Cultured Warrior

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    King James Bible
    The Thomas Jefferson Reader
    The Complete Edgar Allen Poe
    Warrior of the Light
    The Complete Works of Jack London
    Shakespear
    The Sea Rovers Practice
    The 5000 Year Leap
    The Thinkers Toolkit
    A Brave new War
    Benjamin Franklin Autobiography
    Enchirdion Militis Christiani
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  2. 09-29-2011, 03:09 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr John Meade View Post
    The entire "Ender's Game" series by Orson Scott Card
    ^^^^ This is one of the best sci-fi series I've ever read, and I think the only one that I read since Dune back in the late 70's...

    Somewhat guilty pleasure as of late has been the "Song of Ice and Fire" series by George Martin. I came across it after watching "Game of Thrones" on HBO. Whole new level of sword and sorcery, with graphic, detailed and accurate descriptions of medieval lifestyle, warfare and martial arts, and the nastiest/nicest set of scheming characters since the Borgias.

    Here's a short excerpt from an endless list of other all time favorites:

    A Book of Five Rings - Musashi
    The Iliad and Odyssey - Homer
    100 Years of Solitude - Garcia Marquez
    Capitan Alatriste - Perez Reverte (series)
    Notes from the Underground - Dostoevsky
    The Idiot - Dostoevsky
    Faust I & II - Goethe
    Plays and Sonnets - Shakespeare
    Heart of Darkness - Conrad
    Shibumi - Trevanian
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  3. 09-29-2011, 03:26 PM #3
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    Complete Kipling's verse
    "Hunter" by John Hunter. Excellent bio on one of the classic white hunter's in Africa.
    "Steel my Soldier's Hearts" by David Hackworth
    Complete works of Heinlein
    Complete works of H. Beam Piper
    ANYTHING by Vince Flynn!
    "IN ORBE TERRUM NON VISI"

    "LUCK FAVORS THE PREPARED"

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  4. 09-29-2011, 03:37 PM #4
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    The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
    Plutarch's Lives
    The Illiad
    The Odyssey
    The Aeneid
    Herodotus' Histories
    Cicero - De Re Publica, De Legibus, De Officiis
    Summa Theologica - Thomas Aquinas
    The Guide for the Perplexed - Maimonides
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  5. 09-29-2011, 04:03 PM #5
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    I second Plutarch's Lives. (Combine this with Dan Carlin's stunning audio series on the fall of the Roman Republic)...
    -Any book detailing ancient Iraq (pre-Sardonic empire especially) and everything you ever wanted to know about the rule of man will be nicely wrapped up for you...
    -Thomas Jefferson's letters...
    -A biography recounting Ernest Shackleton's South Pole expedition...for a great lesson in perseverance.
    -any Louis L'amour
    -Nassim Taleb's The Black Swan



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    Adding to the above..

    Anabasis by Xenophon
    Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
    Don Quixote, Cervantes
    Bushido, Yamamoto
    Handbook of a Christian Knight, Erasmus
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    "To spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary." Pournelle
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    HEMMINGWAY:

    "The Sun also Rises"
    "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
    "Farewell to Arms"
    "The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral stature of its user. It is equally useful in securing meat for the table, destroying group enemies on the battlefield, and resisting tyranny. In fact, it is the only means of resisting tyranny, since a citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized."
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    The Childe Cycle series by Gordon R. Dickson. Starting with "Dorsai!". It and "Soldier Ask Not" show the warrior mindset as a beneficial part of society. "Necromancer" exaggerates many of today's social pressures and takes them to a different sort of conclusion.

    Anything by David Drake would also be good reading
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  9. 09-29-2011, 05:07 PM #9
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    Sun Tzu's The Art of War
    George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm
    Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
    Hooah, God bless, and Fight On,

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  10. 09-29-2011, 05:14 PM #10
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    Actually, here's a good start, Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics
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