Everybody likes to get something for free and here’s a huge collection of free manuals for you to download. I have not had a chance to review all of them so I can’t say that everything they suggest is accurate. Many of them are hundreds of pages long, so take your time reviewing them and making note of the books or pages in books that you may want to print out.
Urban Preparation Kit, Part 1, On Body Kit
Cold Weather Survival: A Way of Life
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
FM 21-76 US ARMY SURVIVAL MANUAL
Survival In Cold Weather Areas
Survival, Evasion and Recovery
Marines Individual Terrorism Survival
Wilderness Evasion: A Guide to Hiding Out and Eluding Pursuit in Remote Areas
Free Manuals on Edible & Medicinal Plants
WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants
WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants Volume 2
WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants Volume 3
WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants Volume 4
Useful Wild Plants of the United States and Canada
Survival: How to Make Herbal Preparations
Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition
Healing Pets With Alternative Medicine
Ethnobotany of the Forest Indians
Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herb Craft
A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes & Herbal Medicine
Common Edible Mushrooms — Be careful here. It’s recommended that you never eat a wild mushroom without personal instruction with an expert forager/herbalist.
A Complete Handbook of Nature Cure
If you’d like to read another interesting article about eating plants. Click here.
Updated July, 2020
Thank you for making such a great collection of information available. I look forward to perusing each and gleaning what I can. Knowledge always has been and always will be the greatest tool to survival.
Thanks bro.
It is like a breath of fresh air reading all that you do too help others get prepared when the SHTF. Your efforts are much appreciated and needed in times like these. Well done and good job brother.On a note, could you do something of bicycles and panniers for mountain touring,as you can tell by my adderss, Im acyclests and bike tour also TY Bearman.
Thanks for the post. These need to viewed by everyone
Thank you for the helpful links.
Thanks, didn’t have most of those in our electronic library/database.
If you have an electronic database remember to have a a back-up in an EMP proof container along with a back-up computer.
Also helps to keep these in an emp-proof binder 😉
I do both as 2 is 1….
Thank you for your generosity of sharing such helpful information! I am in a process of installing water well (with a hand pump) too. I will keep a hard copy of your information.
God bless,
Jackie
Thanks… I have filed them all on our 3 TB hard drive library and will save them accordingly for the future Generations out of the USA in a secure way and manner..
Dougurs
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thank you for putting this together. now loaded on the kindle with medical, gardening, building, mechanical and other useful manuals. its amazing how much can be had from public domain. I keep the kindle, a solar charger and a few various types of radios in static bags inside a small faraday container. hope it isn’t needed.
Thanks a lot for all of the info. I agree that the mind is the most needed survival tool and most people do not have what they need. Thanks again
What a great collection, thank you for all your work in putting this together for others
This is very thoughtful and kind of you! Thank you for all the work you have done for others. God Bless You!
Good collection of resources.
BUT F.Y.I. be careful,
Christopher McCandless died using a resource similar to these
So many books and so little time.
Need edible plant guide for very remote desert areas, which is where I live.
Thanks
Dear Sir, Thank you for all of your wonderful advice and free, helpful documents. I have added a few links to other documents you may find helpful (though you may NOT want to post all of them).
US Military Document Archive: https://archive.org/details/military-manuals Che Guevera – On Guerrilla Warfare: https://www.thefrontiersmen.org/pdf/Misc%20Handbooks/Che_Guevara_Guerrilla_Warfare.pdf Guerrillas – A Study: https://ia800206.us.archive.org/2/items/Guerrillas_in_the_Mist_Bob_Newman_Paladin_Press/Guerrillas_in_the_Mist_Bob_Newman_Paladin_Press.pdf The Guerrilla and How to Fight Him: https://archive.org/details/The_Guerrilla_and_How_to_Fight_Him_FMFRP_12-25 The War of the Flea: https://ia800506.us.archive.org/5/items/TheWarOfTheFlea/The-War-of-the-Flea.pdf Mao Tse Tung – On Guerrilla Warfare: https://archive.org/details/Mao_Tse-Tung_On_Guerilla_Warfare_FMFRP_12-18 Strategy and Tactics of the Vietcong: https://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/682840.pdf The Art of War – Sun Tzu https://sites.ualberta.ca/~enoch/Readings/The_Art_Of_War.pdf Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy: https://www.studyplace.org/wiki/images/3/36/Machiavelli-1996-Discourses-Book-1.pdf 48 Laws of Power: https://www.naveedkashif.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-48-Laws-of-Power.pdf
IRA Handbook: https://ia601300.us.archive.org/30/items/IRAHandbook1956/IRA-Handbook_1956.pdf SOE Training Manual: https://ironwolf008.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/the-wwii-soe-training-manual-rigden.pdf
SOE – Hand to Hand Combat Without Weapons Manual: https://www.gunthorp.com/Close%20Combat%20Syllabus.pdf Improvised Munitions: https://gunfreezone.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/improvised-munitions-handbook.pdf
https://miningandblasting.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/primary-explosives.pdf
Gunsmithing: https://thehomegunsmith.com/pdf/Expedient-Homemade-Firearms-Vol-II-PA-Luty.pdf
Archery and Bowery: https://texasarchery.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ARCHERY-101-Fundamental-of-Archery-ver2-final.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/user/BackyardBowyer
SOE WW2 Operations List: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Special_Operations_Executive_operations
SOE Training Manual: https://ironwolf008.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/the-wwii-soe-training-manual-rigden.pdf
OSS History: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol.-54-no.-2/pdfs-vol.-54-no.-2/Chambers-OSS%20Training%20in%20WWII-with%20notes-web-19Jun.pdf OSS Sabotage Training Manual: https://www.soc.mil/OSS/assets/special-operations-fm.pdf
CIA Manual Psychological Warfare: https://americanempireproject.com/empiresworkshop/chapter3/CIAsPsychologicalOperationsInGuerrillaWarfareCIAContraManual.pdf
Great information! Thank you for sharing.
Information like SURVIVAL should be shared generously but MOST do not! Thank you for being a stand-up decent person! I wish there was something I could return for your generosity!
I understand where you’re coming from. Glad those free downloads are helpful. However, people spend hours researching, writing, and producing information, and shouldn’t be expected to provide it for free just because it’s “survival” related. They have overhead expenses, have families, etc. We don’t expect that of anyone else. Just a little pet peeve of mine.
Truth should be free. Information should be free. It’s sad when everyone is so used to the system they will attack the ones sharing true info to those who have no monetary gifts to give for it. God bless all who speak and give truth. Freely
This is interesting. So you believe if someone has spent hours and money to do research you’re entitled to the results of all that hard work for free? Sounds pretty lazy.
I think Chaser is saying is that for the many who are suffering economically, earning only enough to support their family’s essential needs, they too should be able to get access to important information. Society/democracy cannot work if only those with disposable income have access to knowledge. It’s like church offerings, those who can give their donations, but those who cannot are still welcome.
Thank you so much for all of this amazing information, I appreciate the time it took to bring all of this together to help us. We are definitely in the time where we need to be knowledgeable and self sufficient God bless
Thank you for putting this website together! So helpful.
Hey this really helps, don’t want to buy books on amazon so I just download these on my kindle and I was ready to go! thanks! is there anyway you could get one on here about just cooking wilde plants??
Do a search on this site for “free manuals” or “free books”. There are quite a few different posts over the years and there may be one on that topic.
Thank you for the great reference materials!