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Author : Gortz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972781572
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book The Borchardt and Luger Automatic Pistols written by Gortz and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Walter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510727310
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Luger written by John Walter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinctive look of the Luger and its role in German military history make it the world’s most famous handgun. In Luger, renowned gun expert John Walter traces the history of this semiautomatic pistol from an early design by Hugo Borchardt in the 1890s through its use in the trenches of the First World War to the final days of the Third Reich in WWII. Other books on the Parabellum-Pistole, as the Luger was also known, focus strictly on narrow subjects like manufacturing details or accessories. While still offering the technical details to satisfy the collector, Walter provides a comprehensive narrative history. Readers will learn of the initial collaboration between Borchardt and Georg J. Luger, who patented the design in 1898. Following initial adoption by the Swiss Army, design refinements convinced the Imperial German Navy to order the sidearm, while the US Army passed on it following field trials in favor of the Colt. Production ramped up for World War I and the gun became a prized trophy for Allied soldiers in both that conflict and World War II. (German soldiers, aware of their desirability, even used them as bait for booby traps.) Today, it is still desired by collectors both for its unique design and for its connection to the history of Nazi Germany, and Luger: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Handgun tells how it came to be.
Author : Neil Grant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472819756
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The Luger written by Neil Grant and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patented in 1898 and produced from 1900, Georg Luger's iconic semi-automatic pistol became synonymous with Germany's armed forces throughout both world wars. Initially chambered for the 7.65×21mm round, from 1902 the Luger was designed for DWM's 9×19mm round, which even today remains the most popular military handgun cartridge. It was adopted by the Imperial German Navy in 1904, followed by the German Army in 1908, receiving the name Pistole 08. Despite being supplanted by the Walther P38, the Luger remained in widespread service with all arms of Nazi Germany's armed forces throughout World War II, and even equipped East Germany's Volkpolizei in the years after 1945. Featuring full-colour artwork, expert analysis and archive and present-day photographs, this engaging study tells the story of the Luger, the distinctive and deadly semi-automatic pistol that has come to symbolize Germany's armed forces in the 20th century.
Author : John Walter
Publisher : Arms & Armour
ISBN 13 : 9780853688860
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Luger Book written by John Walter and published by Arms & Armour. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the famous handgun, with photographs, patent data, official records, exploded diagrams, and identification marks
Author : William E. Goforth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978708603
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works Firearms 1871-1993 written by William E. Goforth and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred A. Datig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Luger Pistol (Pistole Parabellum) written by Fred A. Datig and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Walter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780853689737
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Luger written by John Walter and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lorenz Scheit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972781565
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (815 download)
Download or read book German Flare Pistols and Signal Ammunition written by Lorenz Scheit and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Walter
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783469749
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book The Hand Gun Story written by John Walter and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firearms expert “traces the history of the ‘one hand gun’ from its 14th century origins . . . surveying changing technology, techniques, and design” (Midwest Book Review). Ideally suited for both attack and self-defense, handguns have gotten smaller and deadlier. But the earliest pistols had a tendency to misfire. This was cured by the cap-lock, which proved a massive success in the American Civil War, with hundreds of thousands of cap-lock revolvers used on each side. Self-contained metal-case cartridges were to bring a fundamental change to handgun design: not only by allowing the introduction of revolvers that ejected automatically or were easily reloaded, but also by paving the way for the automatic pistol. World War I provided the handgun with a proving ground. At the end of the hostilities, with so much surplus weaponry, work on the handgun could have ceased; instead, a new developmental phase was begun by the nations that had emerged from the crumbling Imperial empires. During World War II, the efficiency of well-established designs was confirmed and new designs, such as the Walther P. 38, showed their potential. The emergence of the submachine-gun in 1945 reduced the status of the handgun—but only temporarily. The need for efficient self-defense shows no signs of lessening; and the rise in shooting for sport, particularly with the revolver, has sharpened the quest for efficiency. The never ending search for advanced production techniques shows that the handgun has as much a future in the twenty-first century as it had in the heyday of the Wild West, or in the trenches of Passchendaele.
Author : Anthony Vanderlinden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970799791
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (997 download)
Download or read book FN Browning Pistols written by Anthony Vanderlinden and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded, Second Edition
Author : Edward Clinton Ezell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Handguns of the World written by Edward Clinton Ezell and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Automatic Pistols written by Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Ferguson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472816161
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The ‘Broomhandle’ Mauser written by Jonathan Ferguson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when most handguns were limited to six rounds, the ten-shot Mauser caught the attention of the world for its unprecedented firepower and formidable high-velocity 7.63×25mm cartridge. This saw its ultimate expression in the first-ever select-fire handgun – the 'Schnellfeuer' machine pistol, fed by a detachable magazine and offering both full-automatic and single-shot modes. The C 96 was the first semi-automatic pistol to see combat, arming both sides in the Second Anglo-Boer War, and seeing service with the German, Russian, Chinese and other militaries. Widely purchased commercially, it was carried by none other than Winston Churchill in the Sudan and South Africa, became prized by the Irish Republican Army and Soviet revolutionaries, and even armed Han Solo in the 'Star Wars' movies. Featuring full-colour artwork and an array of revealing photographs, this is the engrossing story of the C 96 Broomhandle Mauser, the ground-breaking semi-automatic pistol that armed a generation of military personnel, adventurers and revolutionaries at the turn of the 20th century.
Author : Charles Kenyon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Lugers at Random written by Charles Kenyon and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathan Gorenstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982129220
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Guns of John Moses Browning written by Nathan Gorenstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “well-researched and very readable new biography” (The Wall Street Journal) of “the Thomas Edison of guns,” a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and holds a crucial place in world history. Few people are aware that John Moses Browning—a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the American West—was the mind behind many of the world-changing firearms that dominated more than a century of conflict. He invented the design used in virtually all modern pistols, created the most popular hunting rifles and shotguns, and conceived the machine guns that proved decisive not just in World Wars I and II but nearly every major military action since. Yet few in America knew his name until he was into his sixties. Now, author Nathan Gorenstein brings firearms inventor John Moses Browning to vivid life in this riveting and revealing biography. Embodying the tradition of self-made, self-educated geniuses (like Lincoln and Edison), Browning was able to think in three dimensions (he never used blueprints) and his gifted mind produced everything from the famous Winchester “30-30” hunting rifle to the awesomely effective machine guns used by every American aircraft and infantry unit in World War II. The British credited Browning’s guns with helping to win the Battle of Britain. His inventions illustrate both the good and bad of weapons. Sweeping, lively, and brilliantly told, this fascinating book that “gun collectors and historians of armaments will cherish” (Kirkus Reviews) introduces a little-known legend whose impact on history ranks with that of the Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.
Author : John Walter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780853681311
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Luger written by John Walter and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. L. A. Himmelwright
Publisher : Emereo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781486495870
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Pistol and Revolver Shooting - The Original Classic Edition written by A. L. A. Himmelwright and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Pistol and Revolver Shooting. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by A. L. A. Himmelwright, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Pistol and Revolver Shooting in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Pistol and Revolver Shooting: Look inside the book: The accuracy and uniformity with the smokeless powder was not at first equal to that of the black, but with a better knowledge of the action and behavior of the smokeless powders, these difficulties have been overcome and the smokeless ammunition now gives not only superior accuracy and reliability, but also causes much less fouling and smoke and has a lighter report. ...Among the arms which may be used in these matches are the .38-caliber Smith & Wesson or Colt Military; .44 Smith & Wesson, Military or Russian model; .38, .44 or .45 Colt New Service; .45 Smith & Wesson Scofield; .44 or .45 Colt, Single Action Army, Webley & Scott Mark IV, and the following magazine or automatic pistols: Colt, Webley & Scott, Luger, Borchardt, Mannlicher, Mauser, Mors.
