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| | Kill or get killed |  | Author: Rex Applegate
Publisher: Military Service Pub. Co
Category: Book
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  30 reviews
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 316
ASIN: B0007HDS3M
Publication Date: 1952
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Getting an out-of-print book November 23, 2007
Mostly good points -- the book was essentially as advertised, was clean, and was shipped promptly. Good service. Only criticism (but not a deal breaker) is that this is a Paladin Press reprint of a reprint of a reprint. Quality of the graphics is pretty degraded from the original. Still, it's a classic, and I'm happy overall.
 god help you if you think you need this book September 23, 2007
4 out of 10 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.
god help you if you think you need this book September 23, 2007
1 out of 9 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.
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