4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Robert Greene's 2006 book applying military strategy to competitive life — 33 strategies drawn from Napoleon, Alexander the Great, and other military commanders — structured as a manual for navigating competitive situations.
Ishmael Beah's 2007 memoir of being recruited as a child soldier in Sierra Leone's civil war at age 12 — his experiences of violence and rehabilitation — the most widely read account of child soldier experience.
French author and aviator — author of The Little Prince and Night Flight — who disappeared on a reconnaissance mission in 1944 — the first major literary figure to be both an aviator and a philosophical novelist.
Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War — following Achilles's wrath, his withdrawal from battle after Agamemnon dishonors him, his return after Patroclus is killed by Hector, and his killing of Hector — the foundational text of Western literature and the supreme expression of the Greek heroic ideal.