{"id":3109,"date":"2015-03-25T12:45:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2015-03-25T12:45:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:45:06","slug":"rattenkrieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/rattenkrieg\/","title":{"rendered":"RATTENKRIEG!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subtitled \u201cThe Art and Science of Close Quarters Battle Pistol,\u201d \u201cRattenkrieg\u201d draws its main title from a word the Germans coined for the vicious \u201crat war\u201d of the Stalingrad campaign. The author, Bob Taubert, is better known by his pen name of \u201cBob Pilgrim\u201d because he began writing when he worked for the FBI. Anyone who has worked for a large organization \u2013 dot-mil, dot-gov, or commercial \u2013 understands how that goes.\u00a0 Today, well into an honorably earned retirement, he is out of that particular closet. \u00a0\"Rattenkrieg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve met Bob, and shot with him, and I can tell you he\u2019s awfully good.\u00a0 In a long, \u201cbeen there\/done that\u201d career, he has absorbed a great deal of advanced training from authoritative sources, and he distills it well in \u201cRattenkrieg.\u201d<\/p>\n

This book is an excellent compendium of current pistolcraft doctrine from many sources. Bob takes a very analytical approach, explaining where each technique comes from, and dispassionately listing its strong points and weak points.\u00a0 The book is an excellent overview for new shooters, and a very useful review for the master shooter.\u00a0 Few books can encompass both ends of the bell curve as well as this one.<\/p>\n

What I particularly like about Taubert\u2019s approach is something a lot of writers can learn from, whether or not they have any interest in firearms.\u00a0 That approach is to explain the technique clearly, along with how and why it was developed, and to present it non-judgmentally. Clearly, Bob Taubert has his own preferences\u2026but instead of touting those and dissing the others, he explains them all without prejudice and lets the reader decide.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a writing approach that serves the reader well, whether the book is about fighting with guns or how to raise prize-winning roses.<\/p>\n

Recommended reading. Source is Saber Press<\/a>, which offers other titles by qualified authors which many who read this blog will find of great interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Subtitled \u201cThe Art and Science of Close Quarters Battle Pistol,\u201d \u201cRattenkrieg\u201d draws its main title from a word the Germans coined for the vicious \u201crat war\u201d of the Stalingrad campaign. The author, Bob Taubert, is better known by his pen name of \u201cBob Pilgrim\u201d because he began writing when he worked for the FBI. Anyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}