Apocalypse Ready: Manual of Manuals A Century of Panic Prevention

This is an expertly curated compilation of over a hundred years of officially published, step-by-step guides on disaster preparedness, drawn from government archives worldwide.

Global warming and the COVID-19 pandemic have heightened collective fear and increased demand for disaster preparedness. Author Taras Young collects official survival and emergency documents from the US to the Soviet Union, offering essential survival tips and life-saving strategies for various cataclysmic events.

Organized into four disaster scenarios—pandemics, natural disasters, nuclear war, and alien invasion—this collection displays questionable survival advice and scare tactics from around the globe. It reveals differences in public attitudes toward impending catastrophe since the early 20th century. Young’s commentary provides context, explanatory captions clarify the survival documents.

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