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When All Hell Breaks Loose | 
 enlarge | Author: Cody Lundin
Creators: Russell L. Miller, Christopher Marchetti
Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 3230
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 450
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 142360105X
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.69
EAN: 9781423601050
ASIN: 142360105X
Publication Date: September 20, 2007
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Product Description
Survival expert Cody Lundin's new book, When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes is what every family needs to prepare and educate themselves about survival psychology and the skills necessary to negotiate a disaster whether you are at home, in the office, or in your car.
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 dissapointment August 13, 2008
Cute lil cartoon illustrations made it feel more like it was aimed at school children than adults. If the SHTF this isn't the book that I would want to prepare with or use as a reference after the fact.
 be prepared June 27, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
the book has a lot of good points, not in the manner i would have written it but you cannot argue their is a lot of great information in it that could really help your family in a time of distress
 Some Good Stuff But Needs Editing June 25, 2008
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I had high expectations for this book and perhaps that's why I am a little disappointed. I thought it lacked organization and editing and perhaps was a little heavy on the funky side.
* Replace some of the cartoons with more specific sketches
* Rate measures as to their effectiveness and difficulty
* Serve as a foundation
There were a lot of nuggets and reminders. One was that a .22LR is a lightweight rifle suitable for most small game and certainly effective in stopping another human that wants to cause harm if properly used. Ammunition is cheap and lightweight. It is all useless without practice.
The section on hygiene was great.
More guidance on threat assessment would be helpful as what's needed depends on the prospective challenges, goals and characteristics of the area. What are the worst case scenarios, would you need to leave the place where you normally live or live in-place without outside support and stuff like utilities. Are the natives friendly? What's the prevailing weather? What are the reader's goals - personal survival, family survival, help neighbors and family.
Perhaps the real answer is a bundle of smaller books including a pocket guide to handling medical problems and a survival guide to pack with the gear.
Fun reading but time invested is not adequately rewarded.
 Good Book for all levels of preparation June 21, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Mr. Lundin has shared his considerable knowledge on a number of important issues relating to staying alive and well when "All Hell breaks loose."
the importance of redundant systems for water and fire are mentioned. the disposal of dead bodies is mentioned; a topic that we all hope we never have to do, but in such situations as Katrina, we could be called to do that to prevent the spread of disease and the possibilities of further deaths.
He also treats the subject of self defense seriously, though it gets somewhat shorter shrift than some other subjects. Looting by human predators is an issue that we will likely have to face in disasters and many survival/preparation books ignore that possibility.
It is important to have means of defense and an adequate supply of ammunition. In the LA riots the first thing the authorities did was prohibit sales of ammunition since firearms already had a waiting period.
(Which means you should have the basics, depending on your area of .22 rifle, shotgun, and defense caliber pistol with adequate ammunition already in your possession.) For obvious reasons, ammuntion capacity and quickness of reloading, your pistols should be semi=automatic as should the .22 rifle. Lundin doesn't deal with the defense in depth, perhaps because that may not be his biggest expertise, since he interviews defense experts rather than mining his own expertise. This is not a problem as no can know everything, the positive is that he gets it on defense.
Improvised foods such as rats and dogs are mentioned, abhorrent yes, but it's amazing how serious hunger will open your mind on some subjects.
Good book, very helpful, I've read several of this genre since the government began to push this issue and this is one of the best.
Good deal... June 13, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Having read Cody's "98.6" book, I was eagerly looking forward to this book. I'll say up front that this book's writing style isn't as good as 98.6 but it's a great value that I recommend.
Cody's strength is his experience and blunt comments that really try to get the message through. The book is vast in its coverage (450 pages) so you really get a great value for your dollar. I really like how the book covers non-obvious topics and gives you historical examples/studies where people learned the hard way to help reinforce the point.
Cody's weaknesses are that he comes across as more condescending than in 98.6 and often seems to repeat himself far too much. I sometimes think that Cody believes we are all scared little creatures psychologically incapable of surviving without his 80 page "yes-you-can" lecture. I don't mind some encouragement here, but it should definitely be scaled back as it isn't one of his strengths and shouldn't require so much text. And as for the repetitiveness, for example, by to 20th time you read about how worthless our government is, you feel like saying "I get it, Cody, preaching to the choir." There are indeed too many political, personal, and off-topic concepts in this book. Stick the meat of what the title advertises. Cut off the fat from this book and you'd probably arrive at about 300 pages of solid and wonderful content.
Enjoyed the coverage about water, food, sanitation, body temperature, etc. Well done and informative. The self defensive chapter was hugely disappointing. It seemed more suited for daily urban survival at the local bar and not for catastrophe survival. I agree with Cody that food and water are often greatly overlooked by the Gold/Guns crowd, but to have hardly any advice about firearms seems bizarre. I am not recommending to have guns out of fear but out of reality. Imagine if someone with a gun comes for your supplies or loved ones and the only thing you know how to do is close combat fighting. Guess who will control the situation? And know that guns were confiscated illegally by law enforcement during Hurricane Katrina from law abiding people.
Yes, there are times where it seems Cody may not have listened to his editors or earlier reviewers based on my comments above and a lack of 'polish' on the text. And yes, the cutesy drawings are out of place. However, despite my minor complaints, for a very low price you get such a wide range of very useful information. At minimum the book will make you think in more depth about the subject at large. Most likely though you will learn a amazing amount of survival information. Either way Cody may have helped saved your life someday.
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