Dr. Stephen Turnbull
As many of you know Dr. Turnbull was a consultant on the game Shogun Total War. And he has written many publications on Samurai. Which are your favorites? If I had to pick one to buy as a general reference volume I would buy his latest, The Samurai Source Book because it has a little bit of everything and is kind of set up like a Samurai encyclopedia. Its now in paper back. I have read as many as I could find. Our local library system has many of them. Many of them are now out of print but you can often find used copies.
The books are specialized so you can further follow your interests with his many different titles. You like battle details read Battles of the Samurai for example. This also goes into details about the layout of the land (which we all know is so crical to our personal battles!)
Happy reading!
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