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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hella_Tellah" data-source="post: 4611294" data-attributes="member: 52669">Seconding, thirding, and fourthing this recommendation.  Must read for anyone interested in samurai.  On the off chance that you're running your game in late 19th-Century Japan, Nakae Chomin's <a href="http://www.shambhala.com/html/catalog/items/isbn/978-0-8348-0192-9.cfm" target="_blank">Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government</a> gives you a really good look at Japan's competing political influences at the time.For stuff on Rome--everyone eventually runs a game influenced by Rome--I count Henry Boren's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Roman-Society-Economic-Cultural-History/dp/0669178012/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231029296&sr=8-2" target="_blank">Roman Society</a> as the best look at how Roman culture worked--much more valuable to a game set in Rome than anything about the consuls and emperors.  If it's a military game you're after, Caesar's <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0001&query=book%3D%231" target="_blank">Comentarii Bellum Gallicum</a> remains very readable.  If you're a bad enough dude to read Latin, it's also one of the nicest bits of prose written in Latin.</blockquote>