I guess after the online manual and the version contained in the 1.2.4 patch, I was expecting a more substantial manual than I received in my physical shipment. It consists of sixteen 4 X 7.5 inch pages. Of the 16 pages, three are blank and entitled "Notes". A further one and half pages are devoted to credits. Technical support takes a third of a page. All it tells one is if one experiences problems, run DxDiag and email the file to support@1cpublishing.eu. The remaining two thirds of a page are dedicated to web addresses for Battlefront.com and these forums as well as acknowledging twice that the program uses Speedtree technology. That leaves ten and a half pages that actually talk about the game. One of these is an index page. One page lists some of the default game keys. This leaves eight and a half pages to address the main menu and what each selection entails, how to setup a multi-player game, and how to install, license, running the game as an administrator, and unlicensing the game.
For what its worth, the printed manual does contain the basic information for someone familiar with Battlefront's elicensing process, and running Vista/Win7 programs as an administrator to get Kursk 1943 running. It gives one no information on how to play the game. You will have to print out the .pdf version of the manual to get any of that information.