It’s possible that you like action/adventure films but you’ve never read a book in the genre, but be warned that you are missing a big part of the fun. If you have done any reads in the area, you are probably familiar with Paladin Press, a publishing firm which was created in the 70’s and created a rather famous series of action/military/espionage books which was very much in the time’s mood of self training one to shoot a rifle, do martial arts of knife-fight.
Some of the books stress more the fictional side, whereas the largest part of the collection insists more on the manual aspect. By exploring this site, you will be able to take a look at the complete catalogue of the publisher, and read a short summary of each title ever released by Paladin Press; the site is also a good way to learn about the authors of these books, as each month one new author gets featured by presenting an introduction to his work and an interview (all of the past interviews are available from the site). Purchases are also available from Paladin-Press.com, which comes in very handy as most of the original books are out of print, and whenever a new edition is out it could be hard to get hold of the titles you are after. Since the VHS got massive, Paladin Press has attached some videos to its titles, and the good news for collectors is that you can still buy some of the original videos in VHS format, and some of them are also available as DVDs. 
