What are you reading?

[Lowdown3]

What are you reading now? What have you just read?

Anything good?

[Patriotic Sheepdog]

Lately been reading mostly articles and reports of IV fluids--Hextend--LR--NS, TCCC, what and how soldiers were treated in previous wars when we had none of the Gucci med gear we have now. How will we treat the trauma patient in a grid down situation when we have to go back in time medically? Not very broad studies, but it's my thing. :)


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[protus]

No surrender by LT.onda - good read about Japanese holdouts during ww2.
fly boys - author same Guy that did flags of our fathers ..about the naval air war against Japan and centers around 4-5 pow airmen on /near the iwo Kima island (chici Kima (sp) ) . Not bad but goes into details of Japan's treatment of its pows /civilians etc....kinda messed up.

Contact - I pick this up when I brain gaming scenarios ....I've read it in sections...

Dead sea scrolls - started this but its hard to follow due to it being fragmented.

Got two Hal Lindsey books but have not got to them yet.

That sums up the last 4-5 weeks.

[jimmycthemd]

Been doing some 'light' reading lately. Read Killing Jesus and Killing Patton both by Bill O'reily and Martin Dugard. Both excellent, non-judgemental books. Killing Patton has excellent explainations as to how and why the Soviet Union got control of so much of Eastern Europe.

[Templar]

Just finished Rawles latest book...Picked up a few interesting ideas... A lot of folks don't like him, or his books, but I always pick up something useful from each one...

Regards,
Templar

[prc-104]

So what is it?

Just finished Rawles latest book...Picked up a few interesting ideas... A lot of folks don't like him, or his books, but I always pick up something useful from each one...

Regards,
Templar

When Jim turned over survivalblog to those other fella's , it went pretty faded away.
Now it's just like a hundred others and not even a shadow of it's original self.
Guess nothing good lasts forever.
BTW, Remus is closing down the woodpile report. Another darned shame.

So what is jim rawles lastest book title and when did it get released?

Unintended Consequences is still my favorite along with the original Patriots which was titled Grey Ninties.

[protus]

He added kifaru to the gear list :p

[Templar]

Sorry, shouldn't have left this off...

http://www.amazon.com/Liberators-Novel-Coming-Global-Collapse/dp/0525953914/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414459157&sr=1-1&keywords=rawles

Regards,
Templar

[Rmplstlskn]

The Complete Framing Guide (house framing, building an add-on room)
Fine Homebuilding magazines

Mad Swine (a zombie novel)

Enoch

[prc-104]

Thanks Templar
Much appreciated

[Rmplstlskn]

Something else I was recently turned on to... WWI poetry!
War Poems & Poets

Check the below out, as it is fitting for a survivalist mind.

DULCE ET DECORUM EST(1)

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares(2) we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest(3) began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots(4)
Of tired, outstripped(5) Five-Nines(6) that dropped behind.
Gas!(7) Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets(8) just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime(9) . . .
Dim, through the misty panes(10) and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering,(11) choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud(12)
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest(13)
To children ardent(14) for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.(15)

Wilfred Owen
Thought to have been written between 8 October 1917 and March, 1918

Notes on Dulce et Decorum Est

1. DULCE ET DECORUM EST - the first words of a Latin saying (taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words, it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country.

2. Flares - rockets which were sent up to burn with a brilliant glare to light up men and other targets in the area between the front lines (See illustration, page 118 of Out in the Dark.)

3. Distant rest - a camp away from the front line where exhausted soldiers might rest for a few days, or longer

4. Hoots - the noise made by the shells rushing through the air

5. Outstripped - outpaced, the soldiers have struggled beyond the reach of these shells which are now falling behind them as they struggle away from the scene of battle

6. Five-Nines - 5.9 calibre explosive shells

7. Gas! - poison gas. From the symptoms it would appear to be chlorine or phosgene gas. The filling of the lungs with fluid had the same effects as when a person drowned

8. Helmets - the early name for gas masks

9. Lime - a white chalky substance which can burn live tissue

10. Panes - the glass in the eyepieces of the gas masks

11. Guttering - Owen probably meant flickering out like a candle or gurgling like water draining down a gutter, referring to the sounds in the throat of the choking man, or it might be a sound partly like stuttering and partly like gurgling

12. Cud - normally the regurgitated grass that cows chew usually green and bubbling. Here a similar looking material was issuing from the soldier's mouth

13. High zest - idealistic enthusiasm, keenly believing in the rightness of the idea

14. ardent - keen

15. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - see note 1 above.

These notes are taken from the book, Out in the Dark, Poetry of the First World War, where other war poems that need special explanations are similarly annotated. The ideal book for students getting to grips with the poetry of the First World War.

Pronunciation
The pronunciation of Dulce is DULKAY. The letter C in Latin was pronounced like the C in "car". The word is often given an Italian pronunciation pronouncing the C like the C in cello, but this is wrong. Try checking this out in a Latin dictionary! - David Roberts.

[Benn Gleck]

This past month I've read two books I bought through the links in the sidebar, Patiot Dawn and Retreat Security and Small Unit Tactics.

[RobertJ]

Just finished "Grid Down Reality Bites"
on deck, rereading "The art of war" Sun Tzu. Followed by "Battles that Changed History".

[barfife]

Just finished Route 666 by Fleataxi (downloaded from Jerry D. Young's web site). Very good prepper story that is incidently happens during Revelation. Interesting concept.

[1Admin]

Just finished "Grid Down Reality Bites"
on deck, rereading "The art of war" Sun Tzu. Followed by "Battles that Changed History".

Who wrote this and where is it available?