I’ve always been grateful to my parents for letting me read voraciously when I was young, even persuading the public librarian to let me check out more books than the daily limit 
What conservative beliefs I have started with what I read, and were cemented by the facts of life as I grew older.
Authors
The Master, Heinlein
Norma Lorre Goodrich
Capt W E Johns – the ‘Biggles’ books
Jules Verne
James Fenimore Cooper
Nicholas Monsarrat
Ronald Welch – the Carey series, across the ages from the Crusades – WW1
Duncan MacNeil – the Regimental series, set on the Northwest frontier
John Wayne
Louis L’Amour
Rudyard Kipling
Gene Wolfe
Larry Niven
Jerry Pournelle
David Drake
Steve Stirling
Orson Scott Card
John Ringo
Robert B Parker
Frank Miller
Myths:
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Tristan and Isolde
The Ballad of Roncesvalles
Gilgamesh
(no better way, in my opinion, for a boy to learn how a man should treat his first loves and then the love of his life when he finds her, than to emulate the gentlemen of myth and legend)
Movies:
“Sgt York”
“The Devil’s Brigade”
“MacKenna’s Gold”
“Major Dundee”
“The War Wagon”
“African Queen”
“Band Of Brothers”
“Casablanca”
“The Longest Day”
“The Professionals”
“Valdez Is Coming”
“High Noon”
“Murphy’s War”
“The Guns Of Navarone”
“Braveheart”
“300″
There are of course many more…
