Book and Product Reviews

The Modern Survival Retreat was obviously written in the wake of federal government atrocities at Ruby Ridge, Idaho and Waco Texas. Benson considers the greatest threat to the survivalist to be government use of force against American citizens thus his focus is preparing against attack by some alphabet agency. As Benson states; “Today people must contend with a host [...]

Survival and shtf Movies List (Note) I’ve linked to each movie on Amazon.con so you can read the reviews there – but I don’t suggest you buy the movies. Buying movies is, in my opinion a waste of resources that could be put to better use. If there is a movie you would like to see try redbox or [...]

Is it me, or does it seem like there are a heck of a lot of sub-quaility “survival books” on the market? Granted there are a few really good or even notable books being published, but it also seems a lot of crap has infiltrated the market (and I’ve read almost every title it would seem). [...]

I found this book last fall while walking around a table at the local flea market. The table was piled several books deep, end to end with none displaying a price. As I started wading through the pile of books the guy on the other side of the table looked up, spat a chew of [...]

Okay – this reader question is going to exclude some readers who don’t read survival fiction (my apologies – next one will be more inclusive). What is your Favorite Survival Fiction Book – and Why? This question must be in the top 5 questions that I’m asked each week by readers – so I thought [...]

The amount of emails hitting my In-box makes my head spin. I just checked my in-box and in the last 30 minutes I’ve had 43 emails…. and it is Monday morning as I write this (off-peak) I’m sure this number will grow with the day. On a single day last week I had over one hundred emails [...]

M.D. I’ve been thinking about ordering the Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. It looks interesting, but I wounder if the book has any real or useful information that would help readers survival a real disaster or economic collapse? Have you, or your readers read the Zombie Survival Guide? Does it have any real information [...]

Before we start, I would like to thank Paul for donating his copy of the “Rawles Gets You Ready Preparedness Course” – now if I could get more readers to donate books and other related preparedness products for review I’d be set. I admit being a little surprised when I opened the package. I was [...]

Several months ago, a reader sent ( thanks Mike) me several boxes of books and videos, most of which were very informative, to the point and useful. I love it when readers send me free stuff (hint) especially books and videos that I can review here on The Survivalist Blog. Most of the stuff Mike [...]