Fighting in the Streets: A Manual of Urban Guerilla Warfare (Paperback)

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Product Description

The only available comprehensive manual on urban guerilla warfare. It describes proven methods of street combat that have been tested in countless struggles worldwide. It is a no-nonsense "how-to" manual for armed resistance in today's urbanized "cement jungles." Includes: Principles of Urban Guerilla Warfare The Urban Base of Operations Improvised Explosives and Chemicals Ambushes Security and Communications

Product Details

• Paperback: 129 pages
• Publisher: Barricade Books (April 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 094263747X
• ISBN-13: 978-0942637472
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #655,120 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Simplistic without ideology, January 8, 2001

By	Charles W. Elliot (Poway, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This book is a simplistic survival guide for the urban gurilla. It contains suggested tactics to be used against a conventional force. However, the author's attempt to provide an introduction is weak at best. He begins with a comparison and contrast between urban and rural guerillas which lacked any depth. It could have been improved with a greater explanation of his theories. Some actual examples would have improved his statements. For example; while Urbano mentions the importance of the general populas, he neglects to include the importance of any ideology to maintain and increase this support. Successful examples from the IRA and the Tupamaros would have at least added some substance to his vain attempt at an introduction.

This book is recommended for those who wish to own a manual on improvised weapons. For the students of political science who wish to study the idelogy of warfare, stick to Che, Mao, Sun Tsu, Clausewitz, etc. for there is none either added or included with this book.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction to improvised munitions., October 17, 1999

By	Bernard Jones ([e-mail]) (Canberra, Australia) - See all my reviews

This book was of interest to me as it dealt with the subject of improvised munitions. This is of professional interest to me, as I am a military engineer. It is worth reading from this perspective. As a handbook of urban warfare, I am rather less enthusiastic. I know how to set an ambush, for instance, and at least one of the suggested ambush layouts would result in large scale casualties from friendly fire . . .

By all means buy the book, but be aware of its limitations.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Enough, February 14, 1999

By A Customer

I bought this book because, a writer myself, I was interested in urban warfare, not because I really believed I was going to need the information herein soon. Urbano does a good job of explaning how to produce home-made weapons and explosives, but his description of urban tactics strike me a simple and not very fascinating. Still it may be worth the read for you.