For a while were the Survival Manuals (English: worst case) very much in style, in which one could read how you can jump from a skyscraper or breaks a door. Correct useful were not - why explains Amanda Ripley. In this book, she examines the question of why some people survive disasters and other non - is all just luck? Or you can help on the jumps his happiness anyway? For this she draws numerous disasters (hostage situations, fires, plane crashes, September 11 ...) and by interviewed survivors, psychologists and security experts. The result is interesting and well written ... but how applicable is the thing that is questionable. Important conclusions can be for the planning of emergency in advance deduced: how must be designed building / aircraft, as must be trained people, so that everything goes quickly in an emergency? This part is very well researched and there is accordingly a clear statement. But as far as the crux of the book, so the individual who is at risk, because the statements are too general and too vague to be really helpful - Too much depends on the particular situation and personality. "Save lives" the book therefore is not. Nevertheless, the study of the topic is interesting, not least because it is cleaned up a few myths - such crowd disasters are less common than is often presented and people behave in extreme situations rather particularly friendly, especially as selfish. In this respect, the book was quite interessantv - and there are not many books that I deal this matter ...
