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 From a soldier that knows explosives October 24, 2008
C. J. Barron (Ledward barracks, Schweinfurt, DE)
This book is a good choice for someone from the country that wants to blow off their own hand. As a combat engineer I say your best bet is to go with TM's and government issued manuals on explosives. The sketches and directions in this book are sloppy and sometimes hard to follow, so save yourself money and a hospital trip and buy something that an expert has written.
 Dangerous July 31, 2008
D. Gray
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was in the military for quite some time working with explosives of all kinds....let me tell the prospective buyer of this book this....The recipes contained in this book are dangerous and can often be lethal. They teach us about this book in our job school and the recipes are extremely volatile and unstable. Losing a hand or arm or your very life is a real possibility if you start trying to make stuff in this book. Use at your own risk....hope you have your will done up......
An angry kid's blog, circa 1970 March 1, 2008
Woosup Park (Iowa)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When I was 16, back in the 1980's, my friend and I bought copies of this book to try and see what kind of explosives we could make. These recipes are dangerous, ineffective, and could potentially burn your house down. Smoking banana peels is not a good idea. Gunpowder is dangerous to home manufacture in any quantity. The recipes only partly work, the booby traps are a farce, and the whole book only makes sense to an immature mind that can picture fighting a guerilla insurgency against invading Soviet scum (moi, circa 1984). Fact of the matter is, children have access to far more dangerous ideas and images on the web than they do out of this book which if serialized and published as a blog, would have gotten the author some mild notoriety but nothing more so than young people airing ridiculous ideas and their body parts on line. As an adult with a child of my own, I can understand the why behind the book, the historical context around it, and the desire by many reviewers, including myself and the author, to just bury the book, but I don't think it needs any more attention than pictures of Barbara Streisand's house, Obama-girl, Britney-Lindsey-Paris, and leaked financial documents from a Swiss bank. Stop looking! Don't stop thinking.
Knowledge is power. February 16, 2008
Jack Mccullough (Seattle, WA USA)
If you skip the Commie crap, the book is worth keeping. The information is availible to anyone with a computer but most of the research has been done for you.
This book should be a part of every survivalists library.
 Inspiring, but don't do February 9, 2008
B. B. Bridenbaugh
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I remember having a burning desire to have this book. Back in the 80s when I was a high school student and there was no 'internet' to speak of. Well, a few BBS's the college kids were talking about, long distance phone bills to dial up another city's thing...
So, because of the limited availablity of "Stuff", things like this became very alluring. Go to the bookstore, say "Do you have the Anarchist Cookbook, the Satanic Bible, or the Shams Al Maarif by Al Buni..." and hear "I've never heard of it..." or in case of the former a firm "We DON'T carry it!" and it becomes a mantra of "Forbidden knowledge that the man does want to keep away from you..."
Then, actually getting things like that it becomes rather overhyped. When I read this with some friends, well fortunately I'd learned enough real science and tech to be a bit worried and skeptical about the 'instructions'... Ah, and Geraldo made the second look so cool, but it wasn't that good. And, for the third, as soon as I both get it and figure out enough Arabic to read it... Well, perhaps third's a charm...
Flash forward to adulthood. I'm still a radical who only does the most minimal 'pretense' of normalcy to survive, but would love to tear down/would love when it falls down/ civilization, or at least somehow send it on a more liberal/progressive path.
Here's how; Study big time the 60s, including talking to some 'old dudes'... Communes, political movements, do's and dont's, what works and doesn't. Tangent with modern "Anti Capitalist" stuff. I like Crimethinc a lot, no I'm not a member or whatever. And form a doable, local progressive plan.
We are having a recession starting now, that could turn into a Depression lightning fast. Learning a lot of skills people took for granted would be a big help. Along the way, with 'global economics' shafting Americans big time at last, lots of the stuff they mocked as 'anti fair trade' will come back into appeal. Like "Local farms should feed local people", unions, trade barriers, the corporation is evil and the rich are rich because they take from the people...
What you start up, be it a commune on the outskirts of town, a small business somewhere, a community project or a 'living collective' in some abandoned industrial building (likely got cheaply due to outsourcing) that will be the 'change' you broadcast into society. Save the "Blow stuff up" stuff for only if it becomes necessary, (like a paranoid 'crackdown' by globalists) then don't use this book, you'll have volunteers who know what they are doing.
One thing I've learned, is that despite the propaganda lies of being spitters, real hippies actually took disgruntled vets in. They fed 'em, helped them stand up again, and believe it or not didn't preach to 'em. First, it's a nice thing to do for your fellow man. Second, disgruntled vets make the best "Yippies" should "The wind be blowin-" if you catch my drift so to speak.
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