Speaker Book:

The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Empty Fort Strategy

Online:

• Romance of the Three Kingdoms (complete text) Online 
• 36 Ji – Thirty-Six Stratagems – Wengu Chinese Classics and Translations
• The Thirty-Six Strategies

Print:

• The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
• Mastering the Art of War, by Zhuge Liang
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms, by Luo Guanzhong

Big Bangs, Poor Planning & the Siege of Petersburg

Online:

• The Battle of the Crater – Richard Slotkin
• The Crater – Civil War Trust
• The Siege of Petersburg – Stone Sentinels
• Civil War Talk Radio Companion – Impediments of War
• The Civil War (1861-1865): A History Podcast

Print:

• Don’t Know Much About the Civil War: Everything You Need to Know About America’s Greatest Conflict but Never Learned, by Kenneth C. Davis
• Remembering The Battle of the Crater: War as Murder, by Kevin M. Levin
• Battle Cry of Freedom (Oxford History of the United States), by James M. McPherson

Constantinople 1453: The Last Stand of the Roman Empire

Online:

• Byzantium 1200 – Byzantium 1200 is a project aimed at creating computer reconstructions of the Byzantine Monuments located in Istanbul, TURKEY as of year 1200 AD.
• Economic History of Byzantium – Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
• The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 – Greece.org
• Great Martyr, the Emperor Blessed Constantine XI Paleologos (Constantine’s last speech)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1783232/?ref_=ext_shr_eml_vi#lb-vi2667881241

Print:

• 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West, by Roger Crowley
• The Fall of Constantinople 1453, by Steven Runciman
• The Immortal Emperor, by Donald M. Nicol
• Constantinople 1453: The End of Byzantium, by David Nicolle

California’s Siege of Edison: Movie Outlaws v. the Original Patent Trolls

Print:

• Brief for Appellees Motion Picture Patents Company and Edison Manufacturing Company, by George Melies Company (available online at archive.org)
• Moving Picture World (Jan-Mar 1914 online at archive.org), by New York, Chalmers Publishing Company
• Edison Motion Pictures Collection (Part One, Part Two, Part Three 1891-1898), by The Edison Manufacturing Co. and Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
• Col. William N. Selig, the Man Who Invented Hollywood, by Andrew A. Erish
• Warner Bros.: Hollywood’s Ultimate Backlot, by Steven Bingen

Online:

• Selig Papers Collection – Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections

Of Buckets & Bloodshed: The Battle of Zappolino

• La Secchia Rapita: Poema Eroicomico, by Alessandro Tassoni
• The Cathedral of Modena – Secchia Rapita Room – Unesco
• Beyond the Pail – The Unbelievable War for the Oaken Bucket – Military History Now

One Man’s Siege: Hiroo Onoda

Print:

• No Surrender, by Hiroo Onoda
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, by Mark Manson

Online:

• 6 Soldiers Who Refused to Surrender – History.com
• Hiroo Onoda, Japanese soldier who long refused to surrender, dies at 91 – CNN
• Hiroo Onoda: Japanese soldier who took three decades to surrender, dies – The Guardian
• (Podcast) Hiroo Onoda: The Japanese Soldier Who Wouldn’t Surrender – Unknown History with Giles Milton

For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Isolde Honore, Marcelo Pontin, Kurt Opsahl, Alexander Razo-Myers, Ronny Preciado, and Tre Balchowsky. Thank you!