Category: Recommendations

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on books and movies related to the June 6, 1944 D-Day beach landings, paratrooper drops, and glider landings. Books (D-Day): The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan. Also see the far less scholarly film of the same name, in the Movies section.) o  o  o The Glider Gang. This is a fascinating history of British and American combat landing gliders of WWII, and the men who flew them.   Movies (D-Day): Saving Private Ryan o  o  o The Longest …

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on the EOTech Holographic Weapon Sight. (See the Gear section.) Books: Undergrounds in Insurgent, Revolutionary and Resistance Warfare: Second Edition (U.S. Army Special Forces Reprint) o  o  o Building a Log Cabin in Alaska in Four Months: Using the trees from two acres of land   Movies: Here is the sequel to a movie that I mentioned in this column last year: Idaho: The Movie 2 . The scenery is breathtaking. o  o  o The Ballad of Lefty …

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on Knipex Lever Action Mini Bolt Cutters (See the Gear section.) Books: Nature’s Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants o  o  o I just noticed that Amazon.com now has the standard trade paperback edition my book How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times on sale for just $6.47!  (And there is free postage for Amazon Prime members.) o  o  o High-Yield …

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on Fasteners. (See the Gear section.) Books: The Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook: Make the Most of Your Growing Season o  o  o Back in print!  Total Resistance.  (This book was formerly published by Paladin Press, a company that sadly went out of business, a few months back.) o  o  o Navy SEAL Sniper: An Intimate Look at the Sniper of the 21st Century   Movies: This is a “must watch” documentary on personal liberty narrated by Larken Rose, …

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on The Holodomor genocide in The Ukraine. Books (The Holodomor): Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine o  o  o I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer o  o  o Idaho Off the Beaten Path®: A Guide To Unique Places (Off the Beaten Path Series)   Movies (The Holodomor): Bitter Harvest.   A drama about the Holodomor–the Soviet genocide by starvation in the Ukraine that took the lives of more than seven …

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on RTIC Coolers. Books: With my prematurely aging eyes, this has become my preferred printing size: Holy Bible: KJV Large Print Thumb Index Edition: Tan o  o  o Black Sheep One: The Life of Gregory “Pappy” Boyington   Movies: A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995. Available on DVD. Also available for free download for Amazon Prime members. o o o The Chronicles of Melanie. Available on DVD. Also available for free download for Amazon Prime members.

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on the book New Day of Small Beginnings, by French Calvinist Theologian Pierre Courthial. Books: A reminder that Claire Wolfe’s new book is being released tomorrow–Patriot’s Day (April 19th, 2018): Basics of Resistance: The Practical Freedomista, Book I.This nonfiction book was co-authored by Kit Perez. It is available both as an e-book and as a Print On Demand (POD) paperback. o  o  o To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the …

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on the new generation of rechargeable batteries. Books: Outdoor Survival Skills by Larry Dean Olsen o  o  o How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter and Self-Preservation Anywhere, by Bradford Angier Movies: A Wing and A Prayer (2017). This great documentary about Al Schwimmer and the founding of the Israeli Air Force is available for free download to Amazon Prime members. Also available on DVD. o o o They Live (1988). Now available …

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on storage organization. (See the Gear section.) Books: The much-awaited new book by Claire Wolfe and Kit Perez titled Basics of Resistance will be released (appropriately) on April 19th. As of April 4th, 2018, the print-on-demand paperback edition is now available for ordering on Amazon.com. There will also be a Kindle book, now available at a special pre-order price of just 99 cents. The Kindle release day will be April 19th. I predict that this book will be …

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on the Rosenstrasse protests in Berlin during World War II. (See both the Books section and Movies section.) Books (Rosenstrasse): Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany o  o  o I haven’t yet read it, but this newly-released novel (for Kindle) looks like it would be of particular interest to SurvivalBlog readers: The Divide (A Great State Book 1). It is the first book in a planned trilogy, and comes recommended by John …

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on Tactical Walls — a firearms concealment furniture company. Books: The Call Of The Wild, by Jack London o  o  o NOLS Winter Camping (NOLS Library)   Movies: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. On DVD, but also now available fro free download for anyone with an Amazon Prime membership. o o o Bitcoin Gospel — a 2018 documentary on DVD. It is also now available for free download for Amazon Prime members.  

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on SIG pistols. Books: Gun Digest Book of SIG-Sauer, Edited by Massad Ayoob o  o  o SIG P226 Combat Pistol Armorer’s Manual (Loose Leaf Edition.)   Movies: SIG Auto Pistols Armorer’s Course (from AGI, on DVD) o o o The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin. I highly recommend this documentary that was made back in 2014–still the early days of Bitcoin. In some ways it is a bit dated. (It is humorous seeing people getting so excited about …

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on different aspects of the now much-maligned American Gun Culture.  Try as they might, the gun grabbers will never disarm the American citizenry. We will stick to our guns! Books: American Shooter: A Personal History of Gun Culture in the United States o  o  o McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage, 2nd Edition. Great for homeschoolers! o o o The Money Mystery: The Hidden Force Affecting Your Career, Business, and Investments (An Uncle Eric Book)   Movies: …

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on restoring hand saws. (See the Vlogs and Instructional Videos section.) Books: A new book by Dr. Mark Hyman was just released on February 27th: Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?  Since Hyman has long been an advocate of a nutritious low-sugar diet, I expect his new book to be full of good advice. o o o The Survival Medicine Handbook: The essential guide for when medical help is NOT on the way Movies: I found a documentary …