Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual: Essential Strategies For: Shelter and Water, Food and Fire, Tools and Medicine, Navigation and Signaling, Survival Psychology and Getting Out Alive! Author: Visit Amazon's Mykel Hawke Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0762433582 | Format: EPUB
Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual: Essential Strategies For: Shelter and Water, Food and Fire, Tools and Medicine, Navigation and Signaling, Survival Psychology and Getting Out Alive! Description
About the Author
Mykel Hawke is a Green Beret and Captain in the U.S. Army Special Forces; director of Spec Ops Inc (an international outdoor-survival trainging company); and popular television personality/survival expert from the Discovery Channel, History Channel, MTV, Channel 5 in the UK, and more.
- Hardcover: 640 pages
- Publisher: Running Press; 2nd Ptg. edition (June 9, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0762433582
- ISBN-13: 978-0762433582
- Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 6.1 x 1.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual by Myke Hawke is one of the best survival books on the market. The book is written in a relaxed yet humorous tone. After reading this book you get the sense that Hawke really knows the "in's and out's" of survival. With his extensive military and special operations experience he definitely has, "been there, done that" and this book provides you with valuable insight based on real world experience. He tells you what works, what doesn't and if he disagrees with conventional thought about a survival topic. He pulls no punches and provides a dose of reality when it comes to survival. Hawke makes no apologies that survival isn't pretty or fun and that sometimes it is just miserable, painful and difficult. Also included are survival tips for the urban environment.
There are chapters on: The psychology of survival, shelter, weather, fire, food, tools, navigation, signals, first aid and nature. Each chapter is complete with realistic and relevant survival information that is practical.
The chapter on first aid is extensive, thorough and realistic. Covered in this section is vital signs, triage, trauma medicine, ABC's, nutrition, immunizations, diseases, antibiotics, CPR, self treatment, elements & exposure, shock, common health problems, sprains & strains, dislocations, fractures, cricothyroidotomy, open wound management, closing a wound, appendectomy, wounds caused by critters and animals, and primitive plant medicine. Even if you are up to date on first aid this is an excellent chapter with very relevant and practical information.
My title sums up Mykel Hawke's thesis: Never Quit! If you internalize this you have the message of his book.
I am prompted to do this review because I am a recently retired U.S. Army infantry officer and was intrigued by Hawke's book.
I am giving this book four stars because he needs to do a new edition. This book is the best of the crop of survival manuals as of 2011, but could be improved.
I agree with the other reviewers that Mykel Hawke's language is distractive. At the same time though, it is engrossing and it seems like he is actually talking to you. I could imagine being in a survival situation and listening to his words of wisdom. He writes in colloquial american english. This does not bother me, but the "nekkid" and "-ha" attempts at humour were tiresome in a written version. He has a black humour and attempts to convey this to the reader as if he were speaking. Furthermore, his education as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army show that his education level is far above what he is attempting to portray.
His organizational method and use of acronyms was useful. For example, the chapter on fire starts out with the use of disposable lighters and goes down to the use of stones to make fire. Lesson learned: carry a disposable lighter. This style of writing is applied survival psychology.
As a member of the SF community he does mirroring of the resources deployed to find missing people. He assumes that the resources of the Joint Personal Recovery Agency of the United States Department of Defense would be used to find the reader. If the reader is not American or is an American lost in a rural part of the United States he is making a false assumption.
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