Real Survival when the baloon goes up

[jerrymrc]

Rawl's PATRIOTS was awful. Read the one-star reviews before you waste your money.

I did not think it was bad. As a read "lights out" and "one second after" were better but all in all once it gets going.... I also think that many items in the book are a generational issue as well.

One of my younger solders read it but he had lots of questions about items described that were not known to him.

[Irving]

Like compasses and tobacco pipes?

[RobertB]

It's not bad. I give him about a D for realistic, entertaining writing and sort of hero-worshipping his own decisions, but an A for trying to make a fictional story serve as a limited sort of textbook. It was an interesting way to do it, though it's not comprehensive at that, but points you in the right direction on those subjects. C overall.

[ShooterJM]

So, other then patriots I've only read Alas, Babylon and some other one set in england. I think it was called no blade of grass or something like that.


I'm gathering that One Second After and Lights Out are good reads.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?