This book covers the Army, Luftwaffe, Kreigsmarine, police and NSDAP pistols of Nazi Germany and the pistols of her Axis allies: Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia and Finland, with historic background. A summary fold-out map shows this rich array of pistols distributed across a world at war and battle photographs show these pistols in action. Over 300 pistol variations from 20 nations are described in detail with 600 photos.
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Jan Still has done an outstanding job of intensively researching, compiling, analyzing and summarizing the considerable amount of new information and data that has become available on the pistols of Nazi Germany and her World War II allies over the past years. He has organized this wealth of both old and new data into a very clear, concise and informative presentation.
The information presented in this book will be invaluable to beginning and advanced collectors, dealers, researchers, sudents, historians and firearms authorities alike. Jan Still's dedicated efforts have filled a definite information gap. He is to be especially commended for his diligent and thorough research, and his scholarly presentation of the data. -- From the Publisher
About the Author
Jan C. Still has collected and researched German pistols for the last 30 years. He is the world's authority on German pistols from World War I and World War II. He has researched the guns' history, markings, manufacture and use in battle and over the years has collected many historic photos and pictures. He has photographed some of the most important gun collections in the country. As a member of NAPCA (National Automatic Pistol Collectors' Association) he continues to be involved in dialog with the pistol collecting community.
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This review is from: Axis Pistols: World War Two 50 Year Commemorative Issue, Dedicated to those who fought in the great Battles of the Second World War. The pistols of Germany and Her Allies in Two World Wars (Hardcover)
A superb overview of the handguns of the Axis powers of WWII! If you are a WWII artifact collector or just interested in the history of the war, this book offrs a fascinating look, in both general terms and fine detail, at the pistols of Germany, Japan, Italy, and the lesser Axis powers. Superbly illustrated with detailed views of the guns, accented by action pictures of the guns in daily use during WWII, you will find all that you have any desire to know in this book. It is the reference book for the collector or WWII history student.
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