A. Francis

Very subjective, lots of speculation, many inaccuracies

Revisado: 02-24-21

The author has a clearly very anti-firearm stance, and this is evident throughout the book. There is also a large amount of speculation in the text, particularly around Sarah Winchester. It is evident throughout the book that she has a clearly very subjective anti-firearms stance and the arguments that she uses to back up that stance are largely inconsistent and contradictory. Furthermore, the author insists on calling lever action rifles ‘semi-automatic’ - even after discussing in detail how they operate. The book is hyper-focused around the early history of the Winchester company and Sarah Winchester’s life. Discussion of ‘gun culture’ only covers the last few chapters and, as a result, glosses over the last 100 years of history.

Overall it was an interesting read for the history, but it does not live up to it’s title in any way. The immense amount of basic errors, which could be remedied by a five minute google search, call the rest of the text into question. If you are looking for a book that takes a critical look at this complex topic, you won’t find it in this read.

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Starts out rough but ends on a good note

Revisado: 01-22-21

The Author has this curious habit in the book of switching between his real life study of preppier skills, and a ridiculous recurring but brief fantasy prepper narrative with robots and zombies where he uses the skills that he just learned. It would have been a much better book if he had kept these delusions out. I found the true stories much more interesting than the fiction. However, it is an entertaining read, and I think the last two chapters really redeem the book.

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Okay, but not a must-read

Revisado: 07-16-20

The story seemed to have a newsy matter of fact kind of tone and structure that lacked depth, similar to Tom Brokaw’s the greatest generation but slightly better. I really liked the epilogue, but the rest of the book was just ok. The worst part of the book was the climax, where the author counts down seemingly every minute. I didn’t have a lot of knowledge about this part of WW2, but I felt that in general I didn’t learn very much about this aspect of the war, and I learned very few interesting facts that surprised me. It simply didn’t live up to the hype for me.

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