/lit/ - Literature

>>17656265
The Wars of Justinian, by Prokopios

im BEGGING you PLEASE have sex

>>17656570
warriors have a lot of sex, gentlemen are simps

>>17656586
you do know that you have to be 18 years or older to use this website, right? go talk to girls or smth itll make you less insecure :)

>>17656265
Idk naybe this?

Infantry Attacks by Erwin Rommel

>>17656265
Volsunga Saga
Book of 5 Rings / Musashi
Hagakure

>>17656265
Storm of Steel of course
>>17656570
>>17656600
>everything is sex
Stop being such a coomer

>>17656600
Can you explain to me how dumping your seed in a female means anything?

36 stratagems
Mastering the Art of War (Zhuge Liang)
Three Kingdoms?

>>17656641
>>17656628
Explain objectively what is the point of striving for anything more than bare minimum for your own survival if it is not to achieve immortality?

>>17656749
Because you should do as you please

>>17656570
im BEGGING you PLEASE make war

>>17656749
Because there are things greater than your own survival? Absolutely retarded take anon, but now I understand why you're such a coomer and relate everything to sex.

>>17656265
>not late middle ages chivalry (cucked by courtly love and Christianism)
>mentions Roland and the Cid
dude...

>>17656771
No there aren't?
Why create grand art and ideas if your offspring can't partake in it?
It's the same as planting a wheat field and never harvesting.

>>17656799
>No there aren't?
Well, no, not for you. And that's why coomers go in the camps.

>>17656749
Maybe spend some time thinking about what man is naturally drawn to, rather than what is 'meaningful' in some cosmic sense. There is no point to anything - the sun will expand, the universe will die - but man, through nature, has come to actually feel as though things are otherwise and you, too, are a man. If you were swept up into power, if you were at risk of death in war, you would quickly realize that the machinery of your mind and body force you to feel the glory of victory and fear of death.

Once you choose to experience life, the theoretical meaninglessness of it all evaporates – you are human and nature has designed you to strive for more than survival. You can deny this in only the same way as you can deny that you are hungry or that you need to breathe. Instead of attempting to deny that you are human, why not take advantage of the fantastical machinery of your mind to have subjective experiences that take advantage of your natural ability to feel? You wouldn’t destroy a marble sculpture because it is “only rocks”, so why would you lose the chance to feel deeply because it’s “only atoms”?

>>17656814
>Building a grand nation for your -offspring-
>>17656834
>Maybe spend some time thinking about what man is naturally drawn to, rather than what is 'meaningful' in some cosmic sense.
I do believe that too, but having lived homeless I have come to realize what is actually important in life.

>>17656787
Roland and the Cid are heroic epics of the early middle ages, chansons de geste like the Nibelungenlied are not Roman courtois like Perzeval

>>17656799
You retard, you proved my point. There are greater things than immediate survival, namely projects that stretch beyond one's lifetime. Yes, securing immediate survival is necessary, but if you don't go beyond that bare minimum you're nothing better than a worm.

>>17656265
>listing Arrian's Anabasis
>not listing Xenophon's

>>17656265
>not romances, not late middle ages chivalry (cucked by courtly love and Christianism), not Renaissance courtier humanist cuckoldry, not nordic familiar vendetas from the sagas

>>17656902
I was more referring to christianism, christianity is prevalent in both of those.

>>17656265
Samurai Jack

>>17656265
Betran de Born.

>>17656265
Herodotus Histories, Xenophanes, Book of 5 Rings Musashi

>>17656570
Bend over then

>>17656265
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Book of 5 rings

>>17656265
Highly, highly recommend "war as an inner experience" by Junger.

>>17656265
No Clauswitz and Machiavelli? why even

>>17656265
The Deuteronomistic History (Joshua-Kings)

>>17656570
I’m PLEASING you BEG have sex

>>17656265
>warrior reading list

Who are you fighting, the job market? The obesity? Your landlord?

>>17656265
The Centurions & The Praetorians by Jean Lartéguy
SH 21-76 lol
Secret Commandos by John Plaster

>>17657440
what's that supposed to mean?

>>17656733
Only based anon in this thread

>>17661480
no, i live with my parents...

>>17656570
Make me faggot

>>17661981
Okay bussy up

>>17656265
what are you recommended translations of said works?