Three reading lists for those interested in a career as a mercenary

Three reading lists for those interested in a career as a mercenary.

List #1:

• Something About a Soldier, Willeford
• Legionnaire: My Five Years in the French Foreign Legion, Murray
• The Courage of the Early Morning, Bishop
• The Memoirs of George Sherston, Sassoon
• Soldier Against the Odds, Large
• Soldier, Herbert
• Tom Burke of Ours, Lever (also, “Our Mess” and “Charles O’Malley”)
• Imperial Grunts, Kaplan
• My Detachment, Kidder
• The Originals, Baker
• Chosen Soldier, Couch
• Masters of Chaos, Robinson

List #2:

• The Iliad, Homer/Chapman (and/or Pope, Fagles)
• War and the Iliad, Weil, Bespaloff, Benfey, McCarthy
• Henry V, Shakespeare
• The Anabasis, Xenophon/Brownson (or The Long March, Fox)
• Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age, Waterfield
• A Greek Army on the March: Soldiers and Survival in Xenophon's Anabasis, Lee
• The Aeneid, Virgil/Dryden (or Fagles)
• God’s War: A New History of the Crusades, Tyerman
• Orlando Furioso (Parts one and two), Ariosto/Reynolds (or Harrington)
• Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso/Esolen (or Fairfax)
• Amadis of Gaul, Montalvo/Behm & Place
• Epics of the Middle Ages, Barber (ed.), Lord (illus.)
• The Lays of Ancient Rome, Macaulay
• The Boys Froissart, Lanier
• The Boys King Arthur, Lanier
• The Discourses, Machiavelli/Mansfield/Tarcov
• The History of Rome, Livy/Foster
• The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization, Ward-Perkins
• The Eagle of the Ninth, Sutcliff
• Honor: A History, Bowman
• After Virtue, 2nd edition, MacIntyre

List #3:

• Company Commander, MacDonald
• Crossing the Line, Kernan
• Erik England: The Phantom of Phu Bai, Turner
• Finding The Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy, Kagan
• Heroes of the SAS, Davies
• John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy , Cafero
• Midway, Kernan
• Moving Mountains, Pagonis
• Old Man’s War, Scalzi
• One of the Originals, Cooper
• Platoon Leader, McDonough
• Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker
• Sgt. York, Perry
• Shadow Warriors, Clancy and Steiner
• Soldiers of the Old Army, Vogel
• Starship Trooper, Heinlein
• The Commandos, Waller
• The Company They Keep, Simmons
• The Enormous Room, Cummings
• The Face of Battle, Keegan
• The Forever War, Haldeman (Avon 1991 Mass Market paperback edition only)
• The Jungle is Neutral, Chapman
• The Last Valley, Windrow
• The Lost Moon, Lovell
• The Real Bravo Two Zero, Asher
• The Regulars, Coffman
• The Right Stuff, Wolfe
• The Thin Red Line, Jones
• The Warrior Elite, Couch and Hollenbeck
• The Warriors, Gray
• To Hell and Back, Murphy
• Victoria’s Wars, David
• War Made New, Boot
• Warrior Politics, Kaplan
• Warriors, Hastings
• With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa, Sledge
• Yeager: An Autobiography, Yeager