Posted: 6/1/2009 3:09:11 PM EDT
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I'm ordering a few copies of Andy Stanford's "Surgical Speed Shooting" from Amazon.Com today and got to thinking...
What other books are Arfcom required reading? The List Art Of War Atlas Shrugged Band Of Brothers Blackhawk Down Book Of Five Rings Boston's Gun Bible Gates Of Fire More Guns, Less Crime No Country For Old Men Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution Starship Troopers Surgical Speed Shooting The Hagakure The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress The Road The Stand Unintended Consequences Just a few off the top of my head... On top of that, can anyone recommend books of the same caliber as Stanford's "SSS"? First-hand experience only, please. "SSS" is the shit...his rifle book? Not so much... Thanks in advance. |
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Books in my "every man should have these" library (note that I don't actually own a copy of all of them):
Ender's Game Starship Troopers 1984 Animal Farm Atlas Shrugged Enemies Foreign And Domestic (and the other two books; the third one came out just recently) The Art Of War (Sun-Tzu's, not Machiavelli's; the other one is merely optional) A Book Of Five Rings Lord Of The Flies Battle Royale The Hobbit (and the Lord of the Rings trilogy) The Bible The Federalist Papers The US Constitution The Declaration Of Independence Also recommended are anything written by Teddy Roosevelt and Jeff Cooper. |
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The entire Foxfire Series, in hard copies, since having them in pdf aint gonna do you no good when the lights dont work/
Survival of the Birchbark Canoe How to builid your own Log House and Cabin from Scratch I also a copy of Diterot's Encyclopedia, pattern books for clothing and books on building Muzzleloading rifles |
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Orwell: 1984 and Animal Farm Hemingway: The Old man and the Sea (and pretty much everything else) Clausewitz: On War Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America Hayek: The Road to Serfdom The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Hunter S. Thompson: The Great Shark Hunt; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The Count of Monte Cristo Stephen Pressfeld: The Gates of Fire Michael Shaara: The Killer Angels |
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Books in my "every man should have these" library (note that I don't actually own a copy of all of them): Ender's Game Starship Troopers 1984 Animal Farm Atlas Shrugged Enemies Foreign And Domestic (and the other two books; the third one came out just recently) The Art Of War (Sun-Tzu's, not Machiavelli's; the other one is merely optional) A Book Of Five Rings Lord Of The Flies Battle Royale The Hobbit (and the Lord of the Rings trilogy) The Bible The Federalist Papers The US Constitution The Declaration Of Independence Also recommended are anything written by Teddy Roosevelt and Jeff Cooper. Pretty good list. |
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Thoreau - Walden... surprised that was not said.
That book did so much for me at a bad point in my life. ETA: Some memorable quotes: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." "I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." |
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That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right by Stephen Halbrook
Patriots: The Men Who Started The American Revolution by AJ Langguth Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose If you're from KY or OH you should add: The Frontiersmen and That Dark and Bloody River by Alan Eckert |
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Dragon Days
The Last Hundred Yards Tactics of the Crescent Moon Terrorist Trail The Tigers Way Phantom Soldier Militant Tricks ...all by Poole Anything by Patreaus.... Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife War of the Flea Counterinsurgency Warfare On Guerrilla Warfare Insurgency and Terrorism from Revolution to Apocalypse. Understanding Fourth Generation War by Lind Any and all " SMALL WARS JOURNAL " http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/05/4gw_fourth_gene.html |
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Quoted: I'm ordering a few copies of Andy Stanford's "Surgical Speed Shooting" from Amazon.Com today and got to thinking... What other books are Arfcom required reading? The List Art Of War Atlas Shrugged Band Of Brothers Blackhawk Down Book Of Five Rings Boston's Gun Bible Gates Of Fire No Country For Old Men The Hagakure The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress The Road The Stand Unintended Consequences Just a few off the top of my head... On top of that, can anyone recommend books of the same caliber as Stanford's "SSS"? First-hand experience only, please. "SSS" is the shit...his rifle book? Not so much... Thanks in advance. I've read the one's in red - give Matthew Bracken's books a try too.  |
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For those who might want to take a post apocalyptic flight in a small plane, "Stick & Rudder" After comprehending this, you have a good chance of flying and making a survivable landing where you want to. I have it and it helped me survive my 12 hours of PIC time. |
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I'm ordering a few copies of Andy Stanford's "Surgical Speed Shooting" from Amazon.Com today and got to thinking... What other books are Arfcom required reading? The List Art Of War Atlas Shrugged Band Of Brothers Blackhawk Down Book Of Five Rings Boston's Gun Bible Gates Of Fire No Country For Old Men The Hagakure The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress The Road The Stand Unintended Consequences Just a few off the top of my head... On top of that, can anyone recommend books of the same caliber as Stanford's "SSS"? First-hand experience only, please. "SSS" is the shit...his rifle book? Not so much... Thanks in advance. I've read the one's in red - give Matthew Bracken's books a try too.
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Lucifer's Hammer
Link: Lucifer's Hammer SHTF - Cannibals - Military - Survivalists |
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Not *required* reading, but very highly recommended: Lone Survivor. The writing in that book made it brutal to read, the story it was trying to get across was amazing Atlas Shrug The Mission The Men and Me On War and the book Frank Miller wrote about his time in vietnam |
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The entire Foxfire Series, in hard copies, since having them in pdf aint gonna do you no good when the lights dont work/ Survival of the Birchbark Canoe How to builid your own Log House and Cabin from Scratch I also a copy of Diterot's Encyclopedia, pattern books for clothing and books on building Muzzleloading rifles I love the foxfire series... The Prince by Machiavelli Almost anything by Kipling, Conrad and Hemingway. Engineering textbooks from school. Chemistry Textbook––––just in case an Army of Darkness scenario plays out. Math and Physics textbooks from school. Marine Corps book of knowledge... SAS survival guide |
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Unintended Consequenses
Enemies Foreign and Domestic Death In The Long Grass (or anything by Capstick) Hemingway on Hunting and/or For Whom The Bell Tolls Kings's Dark Tower series All of Card's Ender books Patriots by Rawles Bravo Two Zero Rouge Warrior Pelton's License to Kill and his travel guide Marine Sniper and Silent Warrior Pringle's bio on Roosevelt Ghost Wars by Coll Holy War on the Home Front by Kushner The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Hall Henley's Book of Formulas Jordan's No Second Place Winner Cooper's To Ride ,Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth Guy Lautards Machinist's Bedside Reader series Wiseman's SAS Survival Handbook Elman's Hunters Field Guide Sierra Reloading Manual Lymans Reloading Manual Machinists Bible Glover's Pocket Reference book latest Blue Book of Gun Values ETA............BIG PLUS ONE ON THE FIREFOX SERIES !!!! (Ive only got #5 but will eventually get all) |
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Not *required* reading, but very highly recommended: Lone Survivor. The writing in that book made it brutal to read, the story it was trying to get across was amazing It's a real shame they didn't find him a better ghostwriter. It's an amazing story that deserves to be told, and I'm glad I read it, but I found myself having to reread a lot of parts to make better sense of it, it just didn't flow well. |
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Thoreau - Walden... surprised that was not said. That book did so much for me at a bad point in my life. ETA: Some memorable quotes: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." "I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." I'm just about to finish Walden and start Civil Disobedience. Excellent book. Picked up some more Machiavelli, Thomas Jefferson, and a copy of the Anti Federalist papers + Con Con debates a little while ago. Machiavelli's "The Prince" is good. Frederick the Great's "Instructions to his Generals" is pretty good too. |
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The New Testament
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky The Fall - Albert Camus The Confessions of St Augustine On Free Choice of the Will - St Augustine A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse Leviathan - Hobbes Gulag Archipelligo - Solzhenitsyn The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand |
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Reader's Digest's "Back To Basics " is very simplistic and informative.
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