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Preparedness reference archive

255 Free eBooks

Post author: Joel LimPost published:Post category: SECRET

If you have arrived to this point, you are probably a part of our community, and I welcome you.

Without further ado let’s cover the 255 survival books!

U.S. Army Survival Field Manuals

  • Army-stp21-1-Soldiers-Manual-of-Common-Tasks-Warrior-Skills-Level-1
  • Army-stp21-24-Soldiers-Manual-of-Common-Tasks-Warrior-Skills-Level-2-3-and-4
  • Army-fm 21-76 Survival Manual
  • Army-fm 31-70-Basic-Cold-Weather-Manual
  • Army-fm 20-3-Camouflage-Concealment-and-Decoys
  • Army-fm 5-103-Survivability
  • Army-fm 3-06-Urban-Operations

Special Forces Manuals

  • US Army Special Forces Medical Handbook ST 31-91B – PDF
  • US Navy Seal Survival Handbook
  • Navy-Seal-Physical-Fitness-Guide.pdf
  • Ranger Handbook – 2006 – PDF

Self Defense and Hand to Hand Combat

  • SAS Self Defense Handbook – John “Lofty” Wiseman
  • US-Marines-Close-Quarters-Combat-Manual-FMFM-07.pdf
  • US-Marine-Corps-Hand-to-Hand-Combat.pdf
  • US-Army-Combatives-handtohand-combat-FM-325-150
  • Pressure-Points-Military-Hand-to-Hand-Combat-Guide
  • Practical-Unarmed-Combat-by-Moshe-Feldenkrais.pdf
  • Krav-Maga-Pressure-Points-Military-Hand-to-Hand-Combat-Guide
  • ( Hand to Hand: Martial Arts ) Aikido ( revised )
  • Combat-Conditioning-Manual-JiuJitsu-Lt-Col-RE-Hanley-USMC.pdf
  • Marine-Martial-Arts-Training
  • Combat-Survival-Evasion.pdf
  • USMC-Kill-or-Get-Killed

Terrorism

  • Surviving-Terrorism.pdf
  • Marines-Individual-Terrorism-Survival

Nuclear

  • Nuclear War Survival Skills
  • The-Effects-of-Nuclear-War.pdf
  • ABCs-of-nuclear-survival.pdf

Military Trades and Skills

  • Army-fm 5-428-Concrete-and-Masonry
  • Army-fm 5-426-Carpentry
  • Army-fm 3-97 Military Mountaineering

Other Military and Law Enforcement

  • How to find your way – US Army
  • Urban Preparation Kit, Part I, On-Body Kit
  • FM 21-76-1 Survival-Evasion-Recovery – Military Manual – PDF
  • Western Australia Police – Aids To Survival
  • USMC-Winter-Survival-Course.pdf
  • USMC-Summer-Survival-Course.pdf
  • Art of War – PDF
  • The Guerrilla and How To Fight Him – PDF
  • Total Resistance
  • USMC Summer Survival Course Handbook
  • Physical Security
  • Citizens-Homeland-Defense-Guide-I-The-Art-of-Survival.pdf
  • Citizens-Homeland-Defense-Guide-II-The-Art-of-Survival.pdf
  • 11-Steps-to-Survival-Canada-Emergency-Measurses-Organization.pdf
  • Tactical-Ready-Guide.pdf

Sheltering

  • How to build a debris hut
  • Shelters-Shacks-Shanties-Daniel-Carter-Beard

Foraging for Food

  • Edible-Wild-Plants.pdf
  • Common Edible Mushrooms

Medicinal Plants

  • WHO-Monographs-on-Selected-Medicinal-Plants-Vol-3.pdf
  • WHO-Monographs-on-Selected-Medicinal-Plants-Vol-2.pdf
  • WHO-Monographs-on-Selected-Medicinal-Plants.pdf
  • Useful-Wild-Plants-of-the-United-States-and-Canada.pdf
  • survival-how-to-make-herbal-preparations.pdf
  • Survival-Edible-Medicinal-Plants.pdf
  • MEDICINAL PLANTS in Folk Tradition
  • Herbal-PDRsmall.pdf
  • Healing-Pets-With-Alternative-Medicine.pdf
  • EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL PLANTS.doc
  • Crow-Indian-Recipes-Herbal-Medicines.pdf
  • Anticancer-Therapeutics.pdf
  • A Complete Handbook of Nature Cure
  • WHO-Monographs-on-Selected-Medicinal-Plants-Volume-4.pdf

Snaring and Hunting

  • Deadfalls and Snares – AR Harding
  • Traps and Snares – Tangle, Dangle, Strangle or Mangle
  • Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making

Cold Weather Survival

  • Alpine Living for SAR
  • Cold_Weather_Survival_rev2.qxd
  • Cold Weather Survival
  • Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
  • Survival-In-ColdWeather-Areas

General Wilderness Survival Guides

  • Wilderness Survival Skills.doc
  • Survival-Wilderness-Survival.pdf
  • Adventurer-Woodstravel-Module.pdf
  • Survive! A Guide To Survival in Any Situation

Bushcraft

  • the-ten-bushcraft-books.pdf
  • Australian Bushcraft PDF
  • Flintknapping PDF book
  • The-Book-of-Camplore-and-Woodcraft-Dan-Beard.pdf
  • Bushcraft-Scouting-Woodlore-Notes.pdf
  • Woodsman-Ship.pdf

Food Storage

  • LDS Preparedness Manual 2012 Edition – PDF
  • 3 Month Food Supply Schedule – PDF

Gardening and Food Production

  • Vegetable-Garden-Encyclopedia.pdf
  • Test-The-Soil-First.pdf
  • The-Amateur-Garden.pdf

Food Preservation

  • Canning – PDF
  • Complete Guide to Home Canning – PDF
  • PRESERVING GAME MEATS
  • Guide 5, Preparing and Canning Poultry, Red Meats, and Seafood
  • The Jerky Chef
  • Solar Dehydrator.PDF
  • Small Scale-Food-Drying-Technologies
  • Preserving-Food-Drying-Fruits-And-Vegetables-
  • Guide 6, Preparing and Canning Fermented Foods and Pickled Veg
  • Canning and Preserving
  • Preservation of Fish and Meat

Survival Recipes

  • Camping Recipes – PDF
  • Dutch Oven & Grill Recipes – PDF
  • 1999_Dutch_Oven_Cookbook.pdf
  • Jerky Recipes – PDF
  • 60 Gift Mixes In-A-Jar Recipe’s
  • Boy Scout Cookbook PDF
  • The Back Country Recipe Book
  • Native-Berry-Recipes
  • The-Baby-Food.pd

Other Skills

  • Montana Winter Survival Manual – PDF
  • Recipe for Making Soap #1 – Text file
  • Recipe for Making Soap #2 – Text file
  • Wood Burning – PDF
  • 1881 Household Cyclopedia – book – PDF
  • Morel Mushroom Hunting – PDF
  • bushcraft leather work PDF
  • Foxfire-One.pdf
  • Foxfire-Two.pdf
  • Foxfire-Three.pdf
  • How To Make Black Powder
  • The-Unofficial-MacGyver-HowTo-Handbook-Revised-2nd-Edition.pdf
  • The complete guide to home carpentry
  • Metal-Forming(2).pdf
  • The Household Cyclopedia
  • The Handbook For Practical Farmers
  • Practical Farming and Gardening
  • Rural Tanning Techniques

Important

  • A Manual for Midwives – PDF
  • HHS Pandemic Influenza Plan
  • Survival and Austere Medicine – PDF
  • Where-There-is-No-Dentist-Murray-Dickson.pdf
  • Where-There-Is-No-Doctor.pdf
  • survival-personal-wilderness-medical-kit.pdf
  • Wound Closure Manual
  • Full-First-Aid-Manual-FM-2111.pdf
  • Emergency War Surgery
  • USMC-Wilderness-Medicine-Course.pdf
  • Survival Medicine

General

  • SAS Survival Handbook
  • Disaster Supply Kit
  • Ultimate Survival Skills
  • The-Worst-Case-Scenario-Survival-Handbook.pdf
  • How to Handle a Crisis
  • FEMA Emergency Supplies Checklist – All Americans should have some basic supplies on hand in order to survive for at least three days if an emergency occurs. Following is a listing of some basic items that every emergency supply kit should include.
  • FEMA Family Supply List – Water, food, and clean air are important things to have if an emergency happens. Each family or individual’s kit should be customized to meet specific needs, such as medications and infant formula. It should also be customized to include important family documents.
  • 3 Day’s Emergency Prep’s – PDF
  • Nuclear War Survival Skills – Excellent book describing the means by which to prepare for a nuclear war – especially with expedient and low cost methods.
  • The Family Fallout Shelter MP-15 – PDF This is a digitized copy of the old (1959) civil defense book that showcases several fallout shelter types along with information on proper ventilation, supplies needed, and fallout wind patterns. This is a very old “classic” document that still holds some value today.
  • FEMA – Protection In The Nuclear Age Government sponsored book that came out many years ago on the topic of surviving a nuclear war. Provides lots of information on fallout and the inherent dangers of nuclear weapons.
  • Radio-Monitoring-a-How-to-Guide.pdf
  • Emergency-Plan.pdf
  • General_-_Becoming_Self-Sufficient_for_Six_Months.pdf
  • General_-_Compact_survival_kit.pdf
  • General_-_Dangerous_Animals.pdf
  • General_-_PreparingForDisasterforPeopleWithDisabilities.pdf
  • General_-_Signaling_and_Direction_Finding.pdf
  • General_-_Social_Distancing_and_Pandemic_Readiness.pdf
  • General_-_Strengthening_exterior_doors.pdf
  • General_-_Surviving_in_the_City.pdf
  • Survive-Doomsday.pdf
  • THE-INTERNATIONAL-CBRN-TRAINING.pdf
  • TOP-120-CITIES-AT-RISK-FOR-NBC-ATTACK.pdf
  • The-Construction-of-Secret-Hiding-Placesreduced.pdf
  • SODIS – Safe Water School Training Manual – PDF This download provides excellent educational material on all things making sure water is safe to drink.
  • Survival-Water-Purification.pdf
  • Water Treatment

Knot Tying

  • Knots – Andrew Adamides
  • sea scout knots
  • Ropes-Knots-Ladders-Lashings-Anchorages.pdf
  • knots splices attachments
  • Knots, Splices and Rope Work
  • Knots-for-Mountaineering-Camping-Climbing-Utility-Rescue-Etc
  • Knots-by-Andrew-Adamides.pdf
  • pioneering knots and lashings
  • KNOTS
  • Handbook-of-Knots-Splices.pdf
  • Fishing Knots Tying How To Tie A Knot Knotting
  • Essential-Fishing-knots
  • Encyclopedia-of-Knots
  • basic-book-of-knots-and-lashings.pdf
  • What-Knot-Useful-Knots-for-Scouting-and-Climbing-Martin-Stone
  • Tying-Farm-Knots.pdf

Street Smarts

  • Steal-This-Book
  • Secret-Hiding-Places.pdf