[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Cynical Publius [@CynicalPublius](/creator/twitter/CynicalPublius) on x 231.5K followers Created: 2025-07-20 03:51:46 UTC Re: COL (Ret.) Kurt Schlichter’s new book, “America Apocalypse: The Second American Civil War” _________________________________________________ So I was privileged to read a pre-release version of Kurt’s latest tome, and bottom line up front: GO BUY THIS BOOK! To get this out of the way, I am being paid nothing to review this, the views below are my own. (Although via my early read of the book I apparently earned a very brief mention in the plot as a pre-war, “non-woke Army blogger” who vanished mysteriously after the civil war started🤣.) Obviously, this book is about a Second American Civil War in the present day, blue on red. It’s basically a mash-up of Kurt’s Kelly Turnbull series and “The Attack.” It’s like the Turnbull books (but without Kelly) in that it tells an incredibly detailed and believable story of a second U.S. civil war that begins after Trump and Vance are killed by drone attacks and a Democrat Speaker becomes President. However, it’s told in the style of “The Attack,” i.e., a collection of first-person narratives that tell the entire history of the war from many perspectives. It’s a beautiful and elegant approach to storytelling. If you have read “The Attack,” you’ll know what I mean. Kurt is blessed with a clean, straightforward style of prose that tells stories in a way anyone can understand, but that prose is nevertheless rich with emotion and detail, such as Kurt’s enduring love of Wilson Combat M1911s! The straightforward, clean character of his prose reminds me of Hemingway (don’t let that go your head Colonel!). Hopefully Kurt does not have a home full of polydactyl cats. The story of this modern American civil war is told in a very believable manner. Kurt solves for the fact that we do not have contiguous national boundaries on each side like the first Civil War, and he relates just how blue cities in red states lead to “Bloody Kansas” style guerrilla warfare, with starvation and isolation for the blues and ambushes in the red countryside. It’s obvious that Kurt did a bunch of current research on modern drone warfare, and for that primer alone the book is worth reading. I also loved the way he weaved in how nuclear war could be averted, and how such a civil war would play with our erstwhile international allies. Most importantly to me, Kurt directly addressed the honest, ambivalent feelings of the members of our divided armed forces, in a way I think Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant would both understand. It’s a real page-turner and is clearly a meaningful book regarding our modern-day struggles in the USA, struggles that could end up in true disaster if we are not careful. What I like best about this book, though, is that Kurt pulls no punches regarding the horrors of civil war. Colonel Schlichter speaks from personal experience on that, having served in Kosovo with the California National Guard. Kurt has seen bloody civil war firsthand, and he channels those experiences in a deeply engaging manner in “American Apocalypse.” It took bravery for Kurt to write this book. Just as they did with “Peoples’ Republic” (but during a less fractious time in U.S. history) the leftist intelligentsia will loudly be trumpeting in the media that Kurt is ENCOURAGING civil war, and that his new tome is actually a modern day “Turner Diaries” for budding Timothy McVeighs. The idiots making these slanderous allegations will point to some of the absolutely gut-wrenching, bloodthirsty moments of the book as “proof” of their bizarre interpretations, but they will be wrong in everything they say by XXX degrees. Those idiot leftists miss the entire point. Kurt DID write this book in a way that conveys the sheer medieval savagery of a civil war. Kurt’s Kosovo experiences have taught him that when a civil war starts, savagery and evil know no bounds. Innocent people die in the most painful manner possible, families kill families, prisoners do not expect to live, and the enemy is wholly dehumanized, by both sides. Geneva Conventions??? Pshaw! And that is the real brilliance of this book. Kurt is not ENCOURAGING civil war, he is telling us all just how incredibly horrible and savage it will be, and he is BEGGING us all to not go there. He begs because he knows. “American Apocalypse” is a purely cautionary tale, and a gripping, page-turning one at that. I highly recommend this book be at the top of your summer reading list, and if you can convince your purple-haired, unmarried XX year-old niece with the nose ring, the X cats and the “Harris/Walz” bumper sticker on her Subaru to read it too, perhaps we will be one step further away from the bloody civil war Kurt Schlichter is so artfully trying to prevent. Kurt is sounding a clarion warning call, and we all should heed. Go buy it, please—and share. America needs it. * * *  XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [united states](/topic/united-states) [ret](/topic/ret) [col](/topic/col) [Post Link](https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1946780042748371412)
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Re: COL (Ret.) Kurt Schlichter’s new book, “America Apocalypse: The Second American Civil War”
So I was privileged to read a pre-release version of Kurt’s latest tome, and bottom line up front: GO BUY THIS BOOK!
To get this out of the way, I am being paid nothing to review this, the views below are my own. (Although via my early read of the book I apparently earned a very brief mention in the plot as a pre-war, “non-woke Army blogger” who vanished mysteriously after the civil war started🤣.)
Obviously, this book is about a Second American Civil War in the present day, blue on red. It’s basically a mash-up of Kurt’s Kelly Turnbull series and “The Attack.” It’s like the Turnbull books (but without Kelly) in that it tells an incredibly detailed and believable story of a second U.S. civil war that begins after Trump and Vance are killed by drone attacks and a Democrat Speaker becomes President. However, it’s told in the style of “The Attack,” i.e., a collection of first-person narratives that tell the entire history of the war from many perspectives. It’s a beautiful and elegant approach to storytelling. If you have read “The Attack,” you’ll know what I mean.
Kurt is blessed with a clean, straightforward style of prose that tells stories in a way anyone can understand, but that prose is nevertheless rich with emotion and detail, such as Kurt’s enduring love of Wilson Combat M1911s! The straightforward, clean character of his prose reminds me of Hemingway (don’t let that go your head Colonel!). Hopefully Kurt does not have a home full of polydactyl cats.
The story of this modern American civil war is told in a very believable manner. Kurt solves for the fact that we do not have contiguous national boundaries on each side like the first Civil War, and he relates just how blue cities in red states lead to “Bloody Kansas” style guerrilla warfare, with starvation and isolation for the blues and ambushes in the red countryside. It’s obvious that Kurt did a bunch of current research on modern drone warfare, and for that primer alone the book is worth reading. I also loved the way he weaved in how nuclear war could be averted, and how such a civil war would play with our erstwhile international allies. Most importantly to me, Kurt directly addressed the honest, ambivalent feelings of the members of our divided armed forces, in a way I think Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant would both understand.
It’s a real page-turner and is clearly a meaningful book regarding our modern-day struggles in the USA, struggles that could end up in true disaster if we are not careful.
What I like best about this book, though, is that Kurt pulls no punches regarding the horrors of civil war. Colonel Schlichter speaks from personal experience on that, having served in Kosovo with the California National Guard. Kurt has seen bloody civil war firsthand, and he channels those experiences in a deeply engaging manner in “American Apocalypse.”
It took bravery for Kurt to write this book. Just as they did with “Peoples’ Republic” (but during a less fractious time in U.S. history) the leftist intelligentsia will loudly be trumpeting in the media that Kurt is ENCOURAGING civil war, and that his new tome is actually a modern day “Turner Diaries” for budding Timothy McVeighs. The idiots making these slanderous allegations will point to some of the absolutely gut-wrenching, bloodthirsty moments of the book as “proof” of their bizarre interpretations, but they will be wrong in everything they say by XXX degrees.
Those idiot leftists miss the entire point. Kurt DID write this book in a way that conveys the sheer medieval savagery of a civil war. Kurt’s Kosovo experiences have taught him that when a civil war starts, savagery and evil know no bounds. Innocent people die in the most painful manner possible, families kill families, prisoners do not expect to live, and the enemy is wholly dehumanized, by both sides.
Geneva Conventions??? Pshaw!
And that is the real brilliance of this book. Kurt is not ENCOURAGING civil war, he is telling us all just how incredibly horrible and savage it will be, and he is BEGGING us all to not go there.
He begs because he knows.
“American Apocalypse” is a purely cautionary tale, and a gripping, page-turning one at that. I highly recommend this book be at the top of your summer reading list, and if you can convince your purple-haired, unmarried XX year-old niece with the nose ring, the X cats and the “Harris/Walz” bumper sticker on her Subaru to read it too, perhaps we will be one step further away from the bloody civil war Kurt Schlichter is so artfully trying to prevent.
Kurt is sounding a clarion warning call, and we all should heed. Go buy it, please—and share. America needs it.
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