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Comparing the two, I found Bradley's book to be more recent, easier to read, and more comprehensive. I'd like to compare them here to help other customers.The four books can be divided into two groups: practical guides, and the world's gonna end guides. The two books are: - How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times by James Rawles - When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes by Cody LundinAgain, these two books are similar. The two that I read are: - Handbook to Practical Disaster Preparedness for the Family by Arthur Bradley - Crisis Preparedness Handbook by Jack Spigareli These two books are similar in their scope.
Both are recent publications, and I suppose either would do fine. Neither preaches doomsday preparations and both have a wide range of good advice. Spigarelli's book focuses much more heavily on food storage, whereas Bradley's has a more well-rounded handling of subjects and targets family preparation (including the special needs of children, pets, the elderly, and those with handicaps). As part of my investigation into disaster preparedness, I read four books. For me personally, I found the Practical Handbook for the Family to be the most useful. Not a bad book at all, just dated, and heavily focused on food storage (about 2/3 of the book).The second set of books are targeted for more drastic, world-changing events - nuclear world war, asteroid hitting the planet, collapse of all government, doomsday stuff.
Both target extreme preparation - massive food and water stockpiles, getting off the electrical grid, living in bunkers, stocking weapons and bartering supplies, etc. Of the two, I found Rawles' book to be better written.
If you want to prepare for both ends of the spectrum, purchase Bradley's book and Rawles' book. The first two books are related to what I'd call likely events - hurricanes, flu pandemics, earthquakes, blackouts, food shortages, water contamination, etc.
Lundin's does have a color insert in the middle that is nice.There is some significant overlap between the two types of books, but they are definitely different in their focus. The quality of the publication is also better (numerous clear tables, examples, figures, conclusions, etc).
Spigarelli's book has been around for almost a decade and is highly regarded, but feels a bit dated (text looks almost like it was generated on a typewriter, figures are small, tables are not very clear). My advice is before buying a book, first decide whether you want to prepare for likely events or doomsday events.
Can't go wrong with that.Hope this helps.
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This book reminds me of someone who claims be the "be and end all" of survival and yet play's and "in-crowd" role in society in order to be the first person to get out of town and ends up leaving everyone else to be fed to whatever disaster is looming in the distance and about to roll down the street. many survivalists may approach Mr. Lundin is coming from on his point of view, but was completed mortified by his lack of relying on self-defense and protection of oneself when confronted with physical danger.
Lundin does a lot stereotyping and name-calling towards other types of preparedness and survival people as if knowing how to use a gas mask or other implements of survival is wrong in his view of the world. This book would be great for those readers who believe in population reduction and that their beliefs are an absolute. For readers that believe that we are all in this together, this book would not be for you.
Lundin's, "self-reliance in a world community," (found in the introduction) with a raised eyebrow. Lundin credit for standing up for his belief's but feel this book would be more geared towards New Age readers that do not believe physical self-defense.
Great reference book dealing with practical aspects of urban preparedness that other books fail to mention, let alone cover in depth.
Learning how to open a can of tuna by grinding it into a brick wall using a hand-pressed circular motion is fabulous, or reassuring that your simple two-burner Coleman propane stove can really be a great substitute when you don't have a electric stove. General wisdom then is that this book like many other "survival books" cannot contain everything you would like to know about survival. I give it a 2 star based on organization and ease of reading. Don't misunderstand, I think this book is good reference to have in your library.
Conversely, any old information to you, is old information. I give this book a rating between 3 - 4 stars based on content. Burying your dead relative or lover can be applied to your pet dog too, and methods of making # 2 without toilet paper are in my bin of interesting stuff to know.Overall, you're not in Hell you probably will enjoy this book to curl up with on a dark, and stormy night. Since we can't have it all, I consider the overall content vs. It is likey some of the information will be old stuff that seem like fillers, and worse; information with too little detail or just a cursory note seems just glazed over statements.
However if you're in the moment of HELL breaking loose, this wouldn't be the ideal quick-reference book. lack of ease of reading attributes of this book in deciding.And your level of exposure and knowledge to survival techniques. In my opinion, the information "keywords" aren't arranged in an easy-to-find format especially if you are really in a "When All Hell Breaks Loose" situation.The book "When All Hell Breaks Loose: Staff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes; is informative from the standpoint that any new information to you, is new information. It's just not arranged for quick-reference. This book has both fillers and glaze over stuff that isn't very helpful.
On the other hand some stuff are never-heard-of-before so makes very interesting reading.Since I particularly seek out novel and improvished survival techniques using common, easily obtained materials from urban life or if it were in the rough, materials from nature. Probably the idea is to read and learn all you can while times are good so by the time the real HELL breaks loose, all the information is in your mind instead of in the book tucked inside your backpack.
Lots of repetition but does have a nice list of things to have in a disaster and which disaster to plan what products for.
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