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| Kill Or Get Killed | 
 enlarge | Author: Rex Applegate
Publisher: Paladin Press
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $23.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 165958
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 120
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 1581605587
EAN: 9781581605587
ASIN: 1581605587
Publication Date: October 1976
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 god help you if you think you need this book September 23, 2007
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
as another has said, this is NOT a self defense manual. This was written in early WW2 as a guide to combat troops, on how to kill. As a young 15 year old, tired of being bullied and beaten in high school by thugs, i bought and read this book.
but after learning how to break a sitting man's neck without yourself breaking stride, or how to silence a sentry by a commando knife thrust to his kidneys, while simultaneously smothering his outcry, i was not really better prepared to defend myself at basketball games in tough neighborhoods, since i did not really want to kill my teenaged opponents.
the lessons of this book have no place in civilized society, and anyone who feels a need for this book in peacetime is to be pitied, and may even need psychiatric help. this is a book with a very accurate title, it is on learning to kill, a very serious business.
i am surprized it is still in print, and had not thought of it for 50 years or so, until watching ken burns WW2 movie tonight.
Dated but encyclopedic September 10, 2007
I have the comprehensive hardback edition & use it mainly as a reference & always find tips you don't usually get elsewhere (ex. using the crook of the elbow to steady a pistol, how best to peer around cover & concealment - different but too many use them interchaneably - among others). If you can get past the 1950's photos, you can find useful tidbits. The late Col. Applegate was a pioneer who blazed a trail few had bothered to document before. Styers's "Cold Steel" is in the same vein.
must reading for small women August 16, 2007
if you read this and practice, you will never feel like a small helpless woman again, even tho this book was written, apparently for large men doing dangerous hand to hand combat. I consider it a must for urban survival.
 Good only if you are a police officer August 3, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Classic, must read book basically because it is a milestone in hand to hand combat manuals.
BUT: of the 400+ pages, only the first 50 or so actually speak about unarmed combat, the rest is all about guns,shooting tecs, knife fighting, riot controlling (the book was written when that was a major conflict scenario), immobilizing a prisoner, handcuffing a prisoner etc etc etc....
That is, if you are not a law enformcement agent, completely useless, as in a street fight you don't want to handcuff your opponent, you want to beak him the nose and leave !
To learn the few basic tecs to strike the opponent, the book is quite accurate and detailed, even more than W.E.Fairbarns "Get tough" , plus the photos are clearer (although black and white).
I would say, a must for your combat library, but for training/skill developing, look elsewhere and use other books (I strongly recommend the 2 "Solo training" series)
Not the end all be all, but close! July 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book has got to be the most complete work on combat ever written. In it, Applegate lays out the things he learned from Fairbairn and Sykes with his own tweaks added. An excellent book, although it can be found in .pdf form free at gutterfighting.org
It is dated, and in some areas could be supplemented or updated (ex. by supplementing point shooting with aimed fire (although point shooting would be used more often in real life) as well as replacing or supplementing the parry and block defenses with something along the lines of Darren Laur's "Pat, Wrap, Attack" (Although remember, there is no sure unarmed defense against a knifer, but you can improve your odds)
It could also do with information on Mindset, Awareness and Avoidance, Prevention, etc.
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