If you are trying to find prepper and survival books, you’ve come to the right place. Below is a list of 675 of the best preparedness guides, manuals, books, and PDF downloads. To download any of these titles, you can right-click on a file, and then select “Save As”.
If you are putting together any kind of family emergency preparedness binder, you can always print out physical copies of a few of these guys as resources to refer to. This way, you can access the information when the time comes–whether you have electricity or not.
Military, Combat and Tactical
U.S. Army Survival Field Manuals (7)
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 31-70-Basic-Cold-Weather-Manual
Army-fm 20-3-Camouflage-Concealment-and-Decoys
Special Forces Manuals (4)
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 (15)
SAS Self Defense Handbook – John “Lofty” Wiseman
self defense – how to win in hand to hand fighting
self defense – long, hei master 21 techniques of silent killing
self defense – nerve centers and pressure points
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
Terrorism (2)
Marines-Individual-Terrorism-Survival
Nuclear (3)
The-Effects-of-Nuclear-War.pdf
Military Trades and Skills (5)
Theater of Operations Electrical Systems
Army-fm 5-428-Concrete-and-Masonry
TM 3-34.70 (FM 3-34.471) PLUMBING, PIPE FITTING, AND SEWERAGE
Army-fm 3-97 Military Mountaineering
Other Military and Law Enforcement PDFs (17)
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
USMC Summer Survival Course Handbook
FM 4-25.12 (FM 21-10-1) UNIT FIELD SANITATION TEAM
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
Wilderness Survival Books
Sheltering (2)
Shelters-Shacks-Shanties-Daniel-Carter-Beard
Foraging for Food (15)
foods foraging – edible insects
foraging – feldguide of poisonous plants insects snakes of north carolina
foraging – hendricks park plant identification guide
foraging – introduction to plant identification
foraging – plant identification
foraging – plant terminologyforaging – poison hemlock
foraging – useful wild plants chapters 1-2
foraging – useful wild plants chapter 3
foraging – useful wild plants chapter 4
foraging – useful wild plants chapter 5
foraging – wild food and foraging foraging – yaupon holly
Medicinal Plants (14)
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
Healing-Pets-With-Alternative-Medicine.pdf
EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL PLANTS.doc
Crow-Indian-Recipes-Herbal-Medicines.pdf
A Complete Handbook of Nature Cure
WHO-Monographs-on-Selected-Medicinal-Plants-Volume-4.pdf
Snaring and Hunting (3)
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 (5)
Cold_Weather_Survival_rev2.qxd
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
General Wilderness Survival Guides (4)
Wilderness Survival Skills.doc
Survival-Wilderness-Survival.pdf
Adventurer-Woodstravel-Module.pdf
Survive! A Guide To Survival in Any Situation
Bushcraft (8)
The-Book-of-Camplore-and-Woodcraft-Dan-Beard.pdf
Bushcraft-Scouting-Woodlore-Notes.pdf
Food and Food Storage PDFs
Food Storage (2)
LDS Preparedness Manual 2012 Edition – PDF
3 Month Food Supply Schedule – PDF
Gardening and Food Production (76)
Vegetable-Garden-Encyclopedia.pdf
Watermelon Cultivation and Post Harvest Handling
composting – how to make fertilizer
dirt – building soil organic matter with organic amendments
dirt – dry land farming crops tech for arid regions
how to – construct a simple garden pond
how to – designing your garden
gardening – a hand operated winnow
gardening – alfalfa gardening – allium
gardening – backyard greenhouse
gardening – companion planting chart
gardening – companion planting
gardening – continuous harvest
gardening – fall vegetable gardening
gardening – golden ginseng and golden seal
gardening – green peach aphids on vegetables
gardening – growing and curing tobacco
gardening – growing and harvesting wheat by hand
gardening – growing and harvesting wheat
gardening – growing grains for livestock
gardening – growing vegetables in the home garden
gardening – intensive planting methods
gardening – introduction to organic gardening
gardening – missouri planting calender
gardening – problems, cucumber beetle
gardening – problems, european corn borer
gardening – problems, japanese beetle
gardening – problems, late blight control
gardening – problems, pepper maggot
gardening – pumpkin and winter squash
gardening – saving your own vegetable seeds
gardening – small plastic greenhouses
gardening – sweet potato production and harvesting
gardening – the amateur gardener
gardening – vegetable gardening in georgia
gardening – virginia planting calender
greenhouse – heating with compost
greenhouse – hoophouse construction
greenhouse – hot beds and cold frames
greenhouse – root zone heating
greenhouse – small pvc greenhouse
Tree Crops (12)
trees – pollination of fruit trees
trees – reproducing fruit trees by graftage
trees – ten basics of when and how to prune fruit trees
trees – top working and bridge grafting fruit trees
trees – training and pruining fruit trees
trees – training and pruning fruit trees university of california
trees – grafting and budding of fruit trees
trees – grafting and propogating fruit trees
trees – growing temperate trees
trees – introduction to fruit tree grafting
Permaculture (7)
permaculture – a beginers guide
permaculture – companion planting made easy
permaculture – essence of permaculture
permaculture – maple syrup production
permaculture – permaculture design certificate course
permaculture – welcome to permaculture
Livestock (9)
livestock – chickens, small scale chicken production
livestock – chickens, small scale chickens
livestock – rabbits, from farm to table
livestock – rabbits, management
livestock – rabbits, production
livestock – rabbits, raising rabbits
livestock – rabbits, six foot cage
Hunting and Trapping (5)
trapping – homemade traps and snares
trapping – tangle dangle strangle or mangle
trapping – tips tactics and techniques
Fishing (4)
fish – small scale fish farming
fishing – homemade fishing gear
fishing – improvised fishing devices
Butchering (12)
butchering – cutting up a big game carcass
butchering – deer and wild hogs
butchering – field care of harvested big game
butchering – field to freezer venison
butchering – furriers friend – tanning hides
butchering – homestead poultry butchering
butchering – how to butcher a chicken in 20 minutes or less
butchering – how to render animal fat
butchering – preparing wild game for the table
butchering – skinning wild game
butchering – small scale poultry processing
butchering – tanning deer hides
Food Preservation (56)
Canning – PDF
Complete Guide to Home Canning – PDF
Guide 5, Preparing and Canning Poultry, Red Meats, and Seafood
Small Scale-Food-Drying-Technologies
Preserving-Food-Drying-Fruits-And-Vegetables-
Guide 6, Preparing and Canning Fermented Foods and Pickled Veg
preserving – american harvest dehydrator cook book
preserving – ayer@27s preserve book
preserving – build a large capacity food dehydrator
preserving – canning and preserving 2
preserving – canning meat poultry and game
preserving – canning vegetables
preserving – cassette fruit dryer
preserving – cooking canning cold storage
preserving – curing pork problems
preserving – drying fruits and vegetables
preserving – drying vegetables
preserving – every step in canning
preserving – fermented food and pickled vegetables
preserving – home drying of food
preserving – how to build a solar crop dryer
preserving – how to make a solar cabinet dryer for agricultural produce
preserving – leathers and jerkies
preserving – movable curing frames
preserving – preservation of foods
preserving – preserving vegetables by drying and storing
preserving – preserving wild game poultry and fish
preserving – processing jams and jellies
preserving – small scale drying technologies
preserving – solar food drying
preserving – solar fruit dryer
preserving – steps in preparing jams and jellies
preserving – using and caring for your pressure canner
preserving – using dried foods
Recipes (9)
Camping Recipes – PDF
Dutch Oven & Grill Recipes – PDF
Jerky Recipes – PDF
60 Gift Mixes In-A-Jar Recipe’s
Food Preparation (26)
food – us field manual red meat
food prep – alternate cooking methods
food prep – cooking with dry beans
food prep – dutch oven cooking
food prep – earth friendly food
food prep – enjoy yeast breads
food prep – food storage cookbook @232
food prep – how to render animal fat
food prep – improvised grain mill
food prep – make your own baking powder
food prep – peddle operated grain mill
food prep -food storage cookbook
Survival Cooking (4)
cooking – cooking with dry beans
cooking – solar instructions written
cooking – solar, recipes and cooking tips
Homestead Skills Books
Beekeeping (43)
bees – bee keeping + honey processing
bees – beekeeping and honey production
bees – beekeeping getting started
bees – beekeeping in denver urban gardens community gardens
bees – beekeeping natural, simple and successful
bees- bees for developent with top bar hives
bees – better beekeeping in top bar hives africa
bees – build your own top bar hive
bees – building a better beehive
bees – building a warre bee hive
bees – golden mean beekeeping top bar hive
bees – guide to natural beekeeping
bees – how to build a top bar hive
bees – how to introduce bees to a top bar hive
bees – how to start beekeeping for free
bees – integrated top bar hive management
bees – natural topbar beekeeping
bees – protecting honey bees from pesticide
bees – sustaining native bee habitat
bees – the apprentice beekeepers
bees – top bar hives for the new zealand backyard
bees – towards sustainable beekeeping
bees – west virginia’s beekeepers guide
bees – what you don’t know about beekeeping
Other Skills (28)
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
The-Unofficial-MacGyver-HowTo-Handbook-Revised-2nd-Edition.pdf
The-Making-of-Leather-by-Procter-Makingofleather00procrich.pdf
The complete guide to home carpentry
The Handbook For Practical Farmers
Practical Farming and Gardening
sustainability – build your own rocket stove
sustainability – clay pot making
sustainability – cookstove lore
sustainability – how to build an adobe oven
sustainability – how to make soap
sustainability – sixty uses for vinegar
sustainability – the designers guide
sustainability – the old time spring house
Wine Making (4)
alcohol – guide to red wine making
alcohol – home winemakers manual
alcohol – homemade distillation apparatus
alcohol – how to make alcohol with fruit and berries
Best Emergency Medicine Books and Downloads (43)
A Manual for Midwives – PDF
Survival and Austere Medicine – PDF
Where-There-is-No-Dentist-Murray-Dickson.pdf
survival-personal-wilderness-medical-kit.pdf
Full-First-Aid-Manual-FM-2111.pdf
USMC-Wilderness-Medicine-Course.pdf
medical – a complete handbook of nature cures
medical – army field manual. treatment of biological warfare agent casualties
medical – bird flu diagnosis and personal hygiene
medical – cholera medical – emergency childbirth 2
medical – emergency childbirth
medical – first aid and management of minor injuries
medical – food-borne illnesses
medical – holistic and alternative medicine 101
medical – how medicine should be used
medical – intradermal injections
medical – making an herbal tincture
medical – mass casualty planning and burial
medical – pandemic flu citizens guide
medical – pesticides are poison
medical – philadelphia guide to a healthy birth
medical – safe burial practices
medical – surgery for victims of war
medical – the guide to alternative therapies for cancer
medical – usda american medicinal leaves and herbs 1911
Security and Defense (27)
defense – defending your property – bushfire survival planning
defense – Levato-Francesco-Zombie Apocalypse-4.1-Fall-2013.91-102
defense – off-grid home protection systems
defense – survival self defense
defense – tactics defending the homestead
defense -tactics home security and defense
explosives – kitchen improvised explosives
explosives – military explosives
fierarms – shotguns for home defense
weapons – hidden street weapons
weapons – backyard rocketry – converting model rockets into explosive missiles
weapons – how to make roadblocks
weapons – primitive – atlatl experiments
weapons – primitive – history of the sling
weapons – primitive – how to make an atlatl
weapons – primitive – make and take atlatls
weapons – primitive – make12 atlatl
weapons – primitive – making a rivercane atlatl dart
weapons – primitive – sling throwing as a sport
weapons – primitive – time travel trebushe and atlatl
weapons – primitive – introduction to slings of the world
weapons – ragnar benson, homemade grenade launcher
weapons – secret guide to making ninja weapons
weapons – the fairbairn manual of knife fighting
weapons – viet cong booby traps by kurt saxon
weapons primitive – darts for atlatls
General Emergency Preparedness and Survival PDFs(102)
Like the other books on this page, this archive of emergency preparedness and survival PDFs is provided here as a resource to tht public, for browsing or download.
The-Worst-Case-Scenario-Survival-Handbook.pdf
How to Handle a Crisis -book – PDF
FEMA Emergency Supplies Checklist – PDF
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 – PDF
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 – PDF
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
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
THE-INTERNATIONAL-CBRN-TRAINING.pdf
TOP-120-CITIES-AT-RISK-FOR-NBC-ATTACK.pdf
The-Construction-of-Secret-Hiding-Placesreduced.pdf
prepping – all hazard preparedness workbook
prepping – arc – family disaster plan
prepping – arc – are you ready – earthquakes
prepping – are you ready for a heat wave
prepping – are you ready for fire
prepping – are you ready for wildfire
prepping – become self-sufficient for six months
prepping – becoming self-sufficient for six months
prepping – biological warfare faq
prepping – bug out guide and checklist
prepping – chemical emergencies
prepping – diabetes disaster planning
prepping – disaster supply kit
prepping – emergency preparedness for childbirth
prepping – emp-system-eng-requirements
prepping – fact sheet – earthquakes
prepping – family disaster plan prepping – family emergency handbook
prepping – family emergency plan template
prepping – family preparedness handbook
prepping – fema fact sheet – fire
prepping – fema fact sheet – hurricane
prepping – fema, are you ready appendix a
prepping – fema, are you ready appendix b
prepping – fema, are you ready appendix c
prepping – fema, are you ready contents
prepping – fema, are you ready preface
prepping – fema, are you ready unit 4
prepping – fema, are you ready unit 5
prepping – fema, food and water preparation
prepping – food shelf life recomendations
prepping – food storage in the home
prepping – general – earthquakes
prepping – how to dry fruits and vegetables
prepping – hurricanes natures fury
prepping – ibhs earthquakes brochure
prepping – ibhs hurricanes brochure
prepping – keeping food safe during an emergency
prepping – last minute preparations
prepping – mylar bag sealing methods
prepping – nuclear – 120 cities
prepping – nuclear – chemical, biological, radiological
prepping – nuclear – effects of nuclear war
prepping – nuclear – lsu ag shelter
prepping – nuclear – potassium iodide
prepping – nuclear – you will survive doomsday – bruce beach
prepping – one year emergency food supply for one adult
prepping – pets prepping – preparedness – earthquake
prepping – preparedness – hurricane
prepping – preparing for disaster for people with disabilities and other special needs
prepping – stocking food prepping – stocking for small spaces and budgets
prepping – storage in the home
prepping – surviving in the city
prepping – top ten emergency and preparedness myths
prepping – us field manual food deterioration
prepping – usgs earthquakes brochure
prepping -l food storage 1 year
Alternative Energy Books, Downloads, and PDFs(2)
Generator Load Chart – PDF
Chart offers a quick reference guide to typical wattage loads of various electrical items commonly found around the home. From TV’s to power tools – chart can be used to determine of your generator size is sufficient in case of a power outage.
Practical Guide to Free Energy DEVICES
Books on Water Storage, Treatment, and Resupply (41)
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 – buried and semi-submerged water storage tanks
water – development selection low cost handpumps for rainwater tanks
water – emergency disinfection of drinking water
water – emergency water purification + clorox
water – fero cement water tanks
water – gravity household filter
water – home made hydrolic ram pump
water – household water testing
water – household water treatment
water – how to construct a cheap wind machine for pumping water
water – how to design and build a water system for your backwoods home
water – how to make a solar still (plastic covered)
water – manufacture of handpumps for water collection tanks
water – priming the berkey filter
water – purification of water on a small scale
water – safe use of household grey water
water – sand and gravel water filter
water – simple solar still for the production of distilled water
water – slow sand filtration full paper
water – solar photovoltaics for irrigation water pumping
water – solar water disinfection
water – water storage tanks in alaska
Emergency and Survival Shelter Books (36)
shelter – a long-term survival guide – types of combat shelters
shelter – backwoods + survival shelters
shelter – building with stone and earth part 1
shelter – building with tire bales
shelter – bulletproof your home
shelter – chapter 11 snow shelters
shelter – dynamic compaction of soil for building blocks
shelter – earthship biotecture
shelter – earthship biotectures text
shelter – earthship construction overview
shelter – earthship cool house
shelter – earthship project australia
shelter – expedient fallout shelters
shelter – how to make stabilised earth blocks
shelter – manufacture of small scale building bricks
shelter – nuclear – above ground fallout shelter
shelter – nuclear – air filtration
shelter – nuclear – basement shelter
shelter – nuclear – below ground culvert shelter
shelter – nuclear – below ground masonry shelter
shelter – nuclear – civil defense shelters
shelter – nuclear – how to build a bomb shelter
shelter – nuclear – protection in the nuclear age
shelter – nuclear – self-contained underground
shelters for pre-positioned deployment for defense against nbc warfare
shelter – root cellar construction
shelter – seven primitive survival shelters that could save your life
shelter – shelters, shacks, and shanties, beard
shelter – strengthening exterior doors
shelter – the application of the earthship building type
shelter – the boulder concept of building stone walls
shelter – the thatchers craft – 01_tcm2-18962
Emergency Hygiene and Sanitation Downloads (2)
sewage – base camp hygiene and health
PDFs on Knot Tying (16)
Ropes-Knots-Ladders-Lashings-Anchorages.pdf
Knots-for-Mountaineering-Camping-Climbing-Utility-Rescue-Etc
Fishing Knots Tying How To Tie A Knot Knotting
basic-book-of-knots-and-lashings.pdf
What-Knot-Useful-Knots-for-Scouting-and-Climbing-Martin-Stone
Street Smarts and Urban Survival PDFs (11)
These manuals and PDFs are a great resource for learning urban survival tactics and techniques. They are available here for download, and can be printed out if you would like a physical copy in case of no electricity.
stealth – camouflage concealment and decoys
stealth – construction of secret hiding places
stealth – secret hiding places
stealth – security storage containers
stealth – special forces – caching techniques
stealth – tc 31-29 special forces – caching techniques
stealth – the construction of secret hiding places(reduced)
Free Survival Guides and Books for PDF Download (15)
survival – chapter 7 firecraft
survival – chapter 15, cold weather survival
survival – compact survival kits
survival – guide to self reliant living
survival – making fire with the bow drill
survival – montana@27s take-along winter survival handbook
survival – us army field-expedient weapons, tools, and equipment
survival – us army mountaineering survival advanced
survival – usmc surviving terrorism
survival – wilderness survival
survival – winter survival in your car