Books Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation Small-Scale Pig Raising by Dirk van Loon Fiction The Rackham Files by Dean Ing (includes the text of “Pulling Through” a modern nuke scenario + a mini nuke survival manual) Movies Lawrence of Arabia Saving Private Ryan
Books The Foxfire Book series (in 11 volumes, but the first five are the best.) When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency by Matthew Stein (SurvivalBlog’s Backcountry Editor) Fiction Some Will Not Die by Algis Budrys (Plague total wipe-out scenario. This book influence me as a writer.) Movies Raiders of the Lost Ark (The later installments in the Indiana Jones movies aren’t nearly as good.) Groundhog Day
Books Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival by Jack A. Spigarelli Preparedness Now!: An Emergency Survival Guide (Expanded and Revised Edition) by Aton Edwards Fiction Vandenberg by Oliver Lange (Invasion scenario. Note: It was later republished under the title: Defiance: An American Novel) Movies Amazing Grace (Biography of the abolitionist William Wilberforce) The Thing (Has some horrific scenes, but it is thought-provoking. NOT for kids!)
Walter Miller’s sci-fi masterpiece, A Canticle for Leibowitz, envisions a nuclear apocalypse that wipes out the 20th century world, leaving the few survivors in a pretty hard core TEOTWAWKI situation. Many of the survivors blame the technological horror on human learning, rather than on human sinfulness, and band together to destroy all remnants of western culture. They burn books, and they burn the people who try to preserve them, including Isaac Leibowitz– a major “booklegger”. Leibowitz had organized a group of men into a new monastic order that smuggled books to the relative safety of their monastery, where they copied …
Books U.S. Army Ranger Handbook (U.S. Army manual) Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Wilderness Survival Fiction The Weapon by Michael Z. Williamson (SurvivalBlog’s Editor at Large) Movies Johnny Tremain Suitable for children 10 and up The Bridge on the River Kwai
Books Engineer Field Data (FM 5-34) (U.S. Army manual) Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking Fiction Unintended Consequences by John Ross (This otherwise excellent novel was marred by some vulgarity and gratuitous sex scenes. Beware!) Movies Wall-E– Suitable for children O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Books The Family Cow by Dirk van Loon The Little Black Book of Violence by Lawrence A. Kane and Kris Wilder Fiction Escape from Warsaw (Original title: The Silver Sword) Suitable for young adults Movies They Live The Sound of Music
Books Living Well on Practically Nothing by Ed Romney Tom Brown’s Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants (Field Guide) Fiction My Side of the Mountain Movies The Third Man Dances with Wolves
Books How to Stay Alive in the Woods by Bradford Angier Storey’s Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance by John & Martha Storey Fiction Malevil by Robert Merle Movies The Train Secondhand Lions
Books The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nick Taleb Boston’s Gun Bible by Boston T. Party Fiction Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank Movies Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Sergeant York
I started my writing career reviewing Christian books, and my pay was that I got to keep the books. It was fair enough, as I was a young Christian and it helped build my Christian library. I specialized in Youth ministry books at that time. So, I’ve done a fair amount of book reviews in my life. The new book Liberators by SurvivalBlog’s own Jim Rawles recently crossed my desk. Jim was kind enough to send me an advance copy of this, his latest book, which will be out October 21st. Like the other books in this series– Patriots, Survivors, …
Books Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson H. Kearney Crash Proof 2.0: How to Profit From the Economic Collapse by Peter Schiff Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein Movies Panic in Year Zero Soylent Green
Books Ditch Medicine: Advanced Field Procedures For Emergenciesby Hugh Coffee Passport to World Band Radio, 2009 Edition(Sadly, the last year that this annual reference book was published.) A Tale of Two Cities Movies Brazil The Pianist
Books The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses by Eliot Coleman Flayderman’s Guide to Antique American Firearms and Their Values Survivorsby Terry Nation Movies Braveheart Things to Come(1936)
Books Government By Emergency by Dr. Gary North Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Elliot Coleman Molon Labe! by Boston T. Party Movies Hondo The Postman