Survival Retreat: A Total Plan For Retreat Defense
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Win the battles of defending your retreat by avoiding them! Learn how to harden your city or rural refuge by locating it well and disguising it. "The best defense is obscurity, unobtrusiveness and silence," Benson writes. Chapters are Who Is the Enemy?, What If It Comes to a Fight?, Beyond Firepower and more.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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Useful and entertaining
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Small, easy to read book covering everything you need to know to set up a retreat. At the time it was written, the danger of nuclear war was considered a significant risk which strongly influenced the author's presentation. Many of his points are discussed with entertaining anecdotes, supposedly from his experience.
The most important advice in the book are four points he gives in the introduction and repeats at appropriate times throughout the book.
First, don't make a target of yourself. Second, no matter how prepared, you cannot effectively fight professional soldiers. Third, which he emphasizes the most in the text, don't ever become a refugee. And last, never give up your ability or desire to resist.
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Good, but showing its age
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This book is an excellent, although brief, exploration of the topic. Unfortunately the book is showing its age. Some of the concepts have proven dated to the point they are non-serviceable. For the pricing, however, the book is an excellent primer, an easy read, and quite useful when complimented by its sequel, "The Modern Survival Retreat".
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Bibliography? Nonsense
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One of the great things about books on this subject is the related material that allows you to go more indepth and make your own decisions after an author has raised the issue. This is a slim book -- light weight in more way than one -- and constantly refers to the apparently deep and provocative bibliography "for further reference." Alas, this book has no bibliography which demonstrates a degree of carelessness which makes me question the author's general approach to the subject matter.
I would not recommend it as it's superficial in dealing with the concept of retreats at the very best and the very frequent references to the non-existent bibliography suggest that the author was aware there was far more to the subject that the reader of this book is cut off from.
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A must read for anyone interested in self suficiant liveing
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This is probebly one of the best books you will find on self sufficiant liveing.All youre answers are here where,when,why How,Whoo and WHAT!.Look for other Ragner Benson book's they are all full of valuable information.
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slim crib notes version
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There are many types of books on survival, this one purports to help you make a safe place to live in an emergency.
NEGATIVE POINTS: I read the 125 pages of "The Survival Retreat" in less than half an hour. It says "Total Plan" on the cover, but it is mostly outdated material and far from being total. It is more like a crib notes version. The author constantly referred to other books for information he only lightly skims on, and I like hearing about other books but he relies on this too much instead of sharing some useful information himself. What really got me was that he wrote all of these other books and it becomes this long advertisement. I am not kidding, he promotes 5 books he wrote, some of them more than once. Couldn't he just include some more info? He contradicts himself a few times too on different matters.
POSITIVE POINTS: His editorial opinions on the subject of a survival retreat are actually the strongest part of this book. For example he points out that making a retreat somewhere in the mountain or in the countryside may be a waste of your resources, since you may never get to use it. This is based on his correct suggestion that it may be impossible to get to a distant retreat in an emergency, due to a short notice or congested roads, or an unsafe environment to travel in. And he correctly points out that the danger we need a retreat for is more likely a natural disaster than an enemy from beyond, although since the book was written in 1983 many parts of the country face an increased risk of terrorism.
The author very wisely suggests the best way to defend yourself and your retreat in an emergency is not to get in a fight at all. He recommends that for those that choose to use firearms, they do not need an arsenal of weapons but a few basic items. He says to make your retreat undetected. But he points out how difficult that really is, especially since he recommends making your own home your retreat.
The author includes an interesting check list in the back of the book, but again it needs updating and I recommend you compare it to other lists found on the internet.
SUMMARY: I am not saying don't buy this book, it could be part of a huge survival library or something you buy and then trade for something else once you read it. If you are looking for info on building a safe place try "THE SECURE HOME by Joel M. Skousen", but good luck finding it as even used copies are running $100 each. One of the best survival manuals in the world is the U.S. Army Survival Guide. Because honestly the first and main thing you my need to survive is food and water, then basic shelter if you are not home. Then you can start worrying about other things. If the scenes of long lines of people waiting for food and water at recent disasters didn't teach us that, nothing will. For food storage info books that really do give you detailed info try "Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook" by James Stevens, or "Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival" by Jack Spigarelli. And for just general all around survival information, no one can beat the "US Army Survival Manual". All are sold here at Amazon.com.
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