Books Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life, by Neil Strauss Principles of Personal Defense – Revised Edition by Jeff Cooper Conquistador: A Novel of Alternate History by S.M. Stirling Movies Open Range The Quiet Earth
Books The Last Hundred Yards: The NCO’s Contribution to Warfare by John Poole [Editors note: Normally a $60 book, Amazon currently has $9.99 overstock available. Get it while you can!] Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes by Michael J. Panzner Johnny Tremain Movies The Best Years of Our Lives Red Dawn (The original, by John Milius, of course, not the recent remake.)
Books Survival Poaching by Ragnar Benson Just in Case by Kathy Harrison Little House on the Prairie Series Movies Seven Samurai (Shichinin No Samurai) The Magnificent Seven (the American remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai)
Books Where There Is No Vet by Bill Forse The Secure Home by Joel Skousen No Blade of Grass by John Christopher Movies Black Hawk Down Defiance(This movie was based on the book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans by Nechama Tec.)
Books The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James H. Kunstler Last of the Mountain Men by Harold Peterson Enemies Foreign and Domestic by Matthew Bracken Movies Jeremiah Johnson Empire of the Sun
Books Jules Verne Collection: 33 Works Going Home: A Novel by A. American Movies The Searchers (John Wayne) The Train Instructional Video: Milling Machine Set: Fundamentals of Milling Machine Operation & Advanced Aspects of Milling Machine Operation
Hello HJL, I just finished reading Lewis Dartnell’s most excellent book, The Change. It has been highlighted in the blog previously, Basically the book answers this question: After teotwawki, how would one, in his terms, reboot society, from a scientific and technological viewpoint. He does an excellent job at it. I thought you and JWR might want to add this one to the book and video shelf. As a followup, I was wondering if Dartnell or anyone else already or will be putting out a “companion book” giving detailed plans by which a layman with basic skills could jury rig, …
Books Lights Out by David Crawford (Post-EMP attack.) Also available as a Kindle e-book. Last of the Mountain Men by Harold Peterson Movies 12 Years a Slave Interstellar Instructional Video: Safe At Home A Thinking Man’s Guide to Home Defense – Volume 2 (Louis Awerbuck)
Memories of Poland Lessons From Growing Up Under Communism by Paylie Roberts ©2015 Paylie Roberts ISBN: 978-0692423400 397 pages $17.95 retail price Published by Paylie Roberts Books Available from Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, or other booksellers. This is one of those books reviewers like because it is a good book, yet hate because it is difficult to categorize. By the author’s own admission, it is history, biography, and a treatise of her Libertarian views, so take your pick. As a prepper and scholar of 20th Century Eastern Europe, I was doubly pleased to receive a copy of this book in my mailbox. …
Books Engineer Field Data (FM 5-34) (U.S. Army manual) U.S. Army Ranger Handbook (U.S. Army manual) Movies War Horse Argo Instructional Video: Safe At Home – Volume 1 (Louis Awerbuck)
I was very impressed with this $49.95 two DVD set. It was well produced and the material clearly presented. There were perhaps three times I wished for captions to identify some of the gear and once a drawing would have helped me understand a point about knife blade grinds, but those are small nits to pick out of an excellent video. It even explained and showed knots so well that I could make them, which is no small task as I am knot deprived. I am going to jump to almost the end of the two DVD’s to get a …
Books Essential Bushcraft by Ray Mears SAS Survival Handbook by John “Lofty” Wiseman Movies Seven Days in May Star Trek Into Darkness Instructional Video: The Art of the Dynamic Handgun
Books Great Livin’ in Grubby Times by Don Paul The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nick Taleb Movies American Sniper (Warning: Has many violent war scenes and some foul language.) 12 Angry Men Instructional Video: Art Of The Tactical Carbine
Books Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (A classic nuke scenario. This book was a key influence in my writing, and it was my inspiration to write “Patriots” in a similar style.) Vandenberg by Oliver Lange (Invasion scenario. Note: It was later republished under the title: Defiance: An American Novel) Movies 3 Days to Kill (Warning: Has many violent scenes.) Paths of Glory Instructional Video: How to Shoot Beyond Belief ~ Long Range Shooting for Hunters
Books Some Will Not Die by Algis Budrys. This is a post-pandemic total wipe-out scenario. This book had an influence in JWR’s writing. The Little Black Book of Violence by Lawrence A. Kane and Kris Wilder Movies Red (Warning: Has many violent scenes but no gore.) Red 2 (Warning: Has many violent scenes but very little gore.) Instructional Video: At Home Canning For Beginners and Beyond