Fan Works Books

The book is divided into two section. The 1st being selected beatle and beatle related images. the 2nd is of numerous rockers in germany and france from 1961 and 1962. The beatle second has several of the common jurgen vollmer pictures but also includes rare pictures and alternates. to accompany the pictures in this section is jurgen's memories of meeting and befriending the lads. Now even though the book doesn't contain all of jurgen's images it does contain many that are rarely seen. This book is a must for beatle fans everywhere so please pick it up.

As an educator I was looking for a manual to use as a "101" teaching outline and student text for disaster preparedness courses. What I needed was a common sense text that incorporates the moderation of streetwise experience. This book is exactly what I was looking for.

The author pulls no punches about what works and what doesn't, who is responsible and for what. He tells what is needed to attain various levels of self-sufficiency in a disaster scenario, without conjuring visions of unlikely Armageddon and without promoting the Rambo style survivalism or anti-government dribble espoused in so many of these types of books. This is simple, practical material.

The author's advice on every topic is enlightening and clear. Contrary to the review by "Mr. Armed & Christian", I found the information on sheltering, food storage, and "gadgets", including the 4 paragraphs on firearms, to the point and used in a context that clearly defines their limits of effectiveness.

There are definitely some minor glitches with this book. I found a couple of places in the text where the margins and bullets were confusing. One paragraph in the first aid section is obviously transposed from another page.

Bottom line: not everybody's going to like this book. If you're an extremist whose idea of disaster preparedness includes arming yourself with a hand cannon and a Bowie knife, this book is not for you. If you're simply looking for a guide to better disaster outcomes for yourself or your family or business, this is the book. All things considered, at the price this is the best disaster prep book on the market.

This handbook is a great resource. With a weighty topic at hand--the very survival of yourself and your family in the event of a disaster--the author offers a schematic for putting a plan together that could save your life and keep you safe when bad things happen. Black's systematic approach, obviously gleaned from years of being in the thick of it, takes the best of government and institutional procedures and specialized training and tempers them with common sense, practicality and self reliance. It's an invaluable combination, a unique way of presenting a range of horrible scenarios. If reading this little book is the only thing you do to prepare for unseen disaster, you'll still be way ahead of the game when things come unravelled.

While the author's time and experience in the field of Emergency Response is impressive, it just goes to show that expertise in one area doesn't necessarily make you proficient in another.


This book claims to be able to help you prepare for all manner of weather-related emergencies, earthquake, civil unrest, and even survive a terrorist attack.

The areas of the book concerned with basic personal preparedness (common-sense stuff like shutting off gas and electricity after a natural disaster, how to get water out of your pipes even after the main supply is shut off, and making a phone tree of in- and out-of-state contacts) and basic first-aid are thorough, and there is some useful information contained within (like the chart on water purification methods), some sections on emergency planning and personal response to natural and man-made disasters are so inaccurate as to be dangerous.

In one instance, the author runs through a food list that he claims should sustain an adult for a year, but it only includes #4 of peanut butter and #1 of dried peas, along with low quantities of dried beans, flour, dry soup mix, and pasta that are almost equally unrealistic.

The author's instruction on sheltering-in-place during an NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) event is to duct-tape yourself and your family in an interior bathroom, where, he claims, you will have enough breathable oxygen for about 3 hours.

The author discourages firearms ownership, and it is clear he knows nothing about them when he claims that "9mm is as small as you should go, and anything larger than a .38 is too big." He recommends that his readers be unarmed, and prepared to abandon their homes and possessions in order to rely upon the government agencies to evacuate them and care for them in a mass-casualty shelter. He even recommends at one point that the items in the emergency survival kit (outlined in the earlier part of the book) should be used to barter for goods and services among other shelter residents.

I was very disappointed in this book. I purchased it at the same time that I bought "When All Hell Breaks Loose" by Cody Lundin. I can heartily recommend Mr. Lundin's book as it was a pleasure to read and filled with useful information, while the current book was a waste of time. The authors point of reference, as a rescue worker, permeates the book, and implies some government agency will be available to bail you out, rather than helping the reader take care of themselves. This book clearly does not live up to its flashy title.