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Survival: A Prepper's Guide to Life after the Crash Kindle Edition

by Steve Mattoon (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
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Defend what’s yours when catastrophe strikes with expert tips that go beyond food and water storage.

Should a national disaster occur, how will you respond? What will occur when critical societal services cease to function? As a prepper, you will likely be ready to hole up and live off of your stored supplies, at least for a while. But what do you do during that time? What are your next steps? And how do you defend yourself against others who have not prepared for such a disaster?

After the Crash covers all the situations that you may face when the lack of governmental infrastructure leads to social upheaval and chaos. Since most of the population is unprepared for a disaster of any kind, this book gives both the trained and untrained prepper valuable information needed to have any chance of survival in a world where organized government assistance may not be available. Importantly, he details the crucial steps you need to take in addition to doing everything other survival manuals advise. These critical tips go beyond stockpiling food, water, and weapons.

Offering battle-proven advice, Steve Mattoon explores what it takes to survive alone versus in groups, each approach presenting its own advantages and challenges. Discover how best to defend yourself, what to use, and how to most effectively use the tools you have at your disposal. Whether you find yourself in a rural area or an urban jungle, Steve Mattoon’s After the Crash will prove an essential addition to any prepper’s bug-out bag.
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About the Author

Steve Mattoon spent more than two decades in the United States Army, including stints as an elite Army Ranger. His experiences in the Army and the Rangers led to work as an instructor for numerous law enforcement offices and military branches, even providing specialized training to the Saudi Arabian National Guard. He is an expert in combat and survival tactics as well as explosive entry methods, and he continues to educate military and police forces today. The author of eight other books on explosives and special weapons tactics, including Preparation for Civil Disturbances and A Warrior’s Trail: Strike Always from Shadows, Mattoon lives in Bellevue, Washington.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01G12K1YA
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skyhorse (August 2, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 2, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5684 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 221 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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James Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars A Prepper’s Guide to Life After the Crash-is an excellent and must have book on surviving while surviving
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2016
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Survival: A Prepper’s Guide to Life After the Crash-is an excellent and must have book on surviving while surviving.
Systems breakdown, it is the order of nature. When societal systems break down chaos always ensues. We have seen this many times in our own country and around the world. Depending upon the occurrence the area of breakdown can be relatively small or encompassing whole countries. “Survival” is the book for those who want to take the next step.
Survival is not just about collecting water or storing food and medicine. These are important, however how are you going to protect what you have. How would you move people and supplies in a hostile environment? How should you organize your group for defense, for movement, for foraging? Organizing and managing your group and preparing them for movement, defense, or assault, are essential skills that will determine whether you will live or die.
Steve Mattoon is a man with the real world knowledge and experience to know what it takes to survive in hostile environments. His personal experience in combat and his long experience in teaching and training elite military forces speak to his credibility. I found his writing to be on point and easy to understand. This is no doubt a product of his many years of teaching.
Knowing how to survive while you survive is the step beyond storing food, water and medicine.
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ColoradoRicardo
5.0 out of 5 stars This book gives the down and dirty information I've never seen before. Bravo!
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2022
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Thank you Steve for this Great Book!

I believe that if people read this book and prepare as you suggest, that many lives will be saved.

Richard in Colorado.
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Jay
4.0 out of 5 stars Not a prepper’s guide for sure
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2018
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Not what I expected but I’m not truthfully sure what I expected to begin with.
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M339
3.0 out of 5 stars Question everything
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2019
Found this book at Half Price Books and I like it because it is different from all over survival book. It really gets you to think subjectively about questions you should ask yourself. Its definitely an advanced too to put in the mental tool box for when the day comes and even every day. Now for the "no good news here". Its really redundant. It has a lot of board, general and vague questions that kinda have some meaning and kinda don't. And those vague questions are super redundant in every single chapter. I felt like I was reading the same chapter over and over again with the same general questions. Obviously from his background you can tell right off the bat what the book is going to go in. If I had to summarize it for you minus 50 vague questions it would be: Firearms (and a lot of them) are a must and always have a lookout. Thats pretty much the jist of the book. I will end on this note. He separates himself from all the other prepper books because its not a Chicken Noodle Soup for the Preppers soul book and its not really a How To. Its more of, Here are some questions you prolly have not asked yourself and here are the holes in whatever plan you had and how to potentially fix them. If your tired to How- To's and not too keen on a bunch of stories about disasters then this book is for you.
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richard o. siegler
5.0 out of 5 stars this one is by far one of the best. Where all the others are telling you how ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2017
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Having served under Steve Mattoon I was fully aware of his experience and expertise in the art of staying alive and defending oneself under extreme conditions. So when I heard he had put out a book on Preppers Survival, I knew it would not be any ordinary book on the subject. In this case I was right . Of all the preppers and survival books I have read and are among my library, this one is by far one of the best. Where all the others are telling you how to build a shelter, fire or purify water, Steve is sharing his knowledge on staying alive from a tactical perspective from his own true life experiences. No matter how good one is at building fire, shelter or gathering food, if you can not avoid the dangers or defend yourself or your location, all the rest means little.
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Wildcat 1-1
5.0 out of 5 stars Learn from the Master!
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2016
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Survival: A Prepper’s Guide to Life After the Crash; The crash will of course come but when, that’s the unknown. Steve latest book prepares you for that unknown day as very few others can. The social and governmental systems that we depend on will fail and chaos will reign. Survival for yourself and your family is your responsibility and Steve’s book will help you meet that challenge, with step by step instructions learned over years of firsthand experience. I know Steve is the real deal, we survived and thrived together for a year in a place where chaos
was the norm and survival was a way of life. Learn from the Master!
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Matt
5.0 out of 5 stars This is one book you have to read.
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2020
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As a prepping (always) former military vet, Steve did bring some very important issues/questions that most of us would have overlooked. There are many other books out there to give you the nuts and bolts of what items to get, but Steve's military/security experience used his book to to make sure that your head is ready for the real world after whatever disaster occurs. Thanks
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4.0 out of 5 stars be prepared
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2017
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makes you think about the possibilities if there is a large scale disaster
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sethraul s datta
4.0 out of 5 stars The author makes good points about leadership and security that are well worth ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2017
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The main premise of the book is that the most lethal predator known to man is his fellow man; and in certain respects this is true. The author makes good points about leadership and security that are well worth taking attention of. It is not a survival book per se about living in the wild on your own/with a group, but rather survival when you have starving hordes and groups wanting to take what you have stockpiled. It is good at addressing the survival aspect of the subject matter it is addressing but of course if you are into shtf literature you are also buying other books on other topics such as hygiene, medical, dental, self-defence, homesteading etc.. to add to your library (issues which this book may touch on but doesn't explore, preferring to concentrate on its one topic).
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