"The Bear Went Over the Mountain" is really not a single book; it is a compilation of forty-odd short vignettes of Soviet combat actions from their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. The accounts were taken and translated from a volume printed by the Frunze Combined Arms Academy in Moscow. T...

This book is a bit of an odd one...written by Klaus-Peter König and Martin Hugo in 1987, it is a translation from German or a book intended for the German sport shooting market. It attempts to be a catalog of 9mm Parabellum pistols, but this is impossible because of the number of new designs that...

Rather than review a specific book today, I thought it might be useful to go through my library and pick out a set of 5 general-purpose books that would make a good foundation for a firearms reference library. Specifically, books that cover a lot of ground, have at least a decent amount of detail...

Perry Cox and Bruce Kaufman recently released a book on the very specific details of the Colt SP-1 Sporter rifle and carbine. This was Colt's semiauto civilian model of the AR-15/M-16, and they were the only commercial semiauto AR available for many years. Production ran from 1964 until 1984, and...

Only available direct from Vickers Guide:
https://www.vickersguide.com/hk-vol1-1

The Vickers Guide series of books by Larry Vickers and James Rupley began as beautifully photographed firearms art books - and that's all they claim to be today. However, with the release of Heckler & Koch Volume...

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Tom Whiteman (of Legacy Collectibles) has just recently published "Third Reich Lugers: An Illustrated Collector's Guide to German Military Lugers from World War II". The full title pretty much says it all here; this is not a history of the Luger or...

The story of the Czechoslovak resistance to German annexation and occupation during World War Two is a pretty bleak one - the Gestapo did a very effective job of rooting out almost the entire organization. One of the most notable actions taken was the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by two SOE...

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Swords of the Emperor: A Guide to the Identification of Imperial Japanese Swords, 1873 – 1945 is a comprehensive reference work examining a little-studied period in the Japanese swordmaking tradition.

Japan is internationally renowned for its traditional swords, but comparatively little has be...

James Rupley and Larry Vickers have released a second edition of their Vickers Guide: 1911 book, and it is a massive expansion on the original printing. The gorgeous photography remains as good as ever, but the book is now two volumes, with more than 150 pistols and nearly 850 total pages. It was...

Rory Reynoldson has recently published a small Pocket Reference for the Savage 99 lever-action rifles. This is a collector's resource that includes the particularly important tabular sort of data for keeping on hand at gun shows and the like - serial number ranges, model designations, calibers, b...

Guy and Leonard A-R-West have published their third book about black powder military breechloaders, "Development of the Podewils & Werder Rifles of the Bavarian Army". It follows the same format at their previous books on the Chassepot and Dreyse systems, including the hand-drawn illustrations. T...

Schiffer Military History has a line of short (80 page) hardcover books they call "Classic Guns of the World", and one of the recent additions to it is Llc Guillou's "The MAT-49 Submachine Gun and Preceding French Submachine Gun Designs Including the MAS-35". It really should be called just "Fren...

It is a bit surprising that there has not previously been a significant book written on the M3 "Grease Gun" submachine gun - but Michael Heidler has corrected that empty space in the firearms literature. His new book "The US M3/M3A1 Submachine Gun" is 224 pages covering all aspects of the Grease ...

Let me preface this by saying that I remain a big fan of the Scout Rifle concept and the Steyr Scout in particular. When I ordered a copy of Richard Mann's "The Scout Rifle Study", I was hoping to find a critical assessment of the concept. I was hoping to see pros and cons of the forward-mounted ...

I am very excited to finally be able to formally present to you Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles 1866-2016! After about 3 years of work, it's finally here and shipping. My goal with this book was to create a reference guide that would allow someone to identify any French military rifle ...

For this month's Q&A, we go back to a wide variety of questions, without a single specific theme. They are:

0:00:30 - Rifle, pistol, and machine gun for a modern squad
0:04:35 - Favorite non-firearm historical site
0:08:50 - What is my daily schedule like?
0:10:47 - Advantages of toggle loc...

Rob Kassab and Brad Dunbar have just published an excellent new book on the Winchester Model 1895 rifle - the Last of the Classic Lever Actions, as their subtitle describes. It is a very nice looking and feeling book (US-printed, leather-bound, and 432 pages long), it is chock full of good photog...

Joel Black partnered with several coauthors (Joseph L. Davis and Roger G. Michaud for the first and Homer Ficken and Frank Michaels for the second) to produce two volumes cataloging an immense variety of Webley solid-frame revolvers. These books include only small and scattered text segments, wit...

Dieter Marschall originally published his book on Walther Pistols in German, but it was translated into English to meet demand form the collector market here in the US. This is the third English edition, expanded form previous ones. Unlike most books on Walther, this one covers all of Walther's p...

The latest Vickers Guide book is now available: WWII Germany, Volume 2. Where the first volume focused on bolt action rifles and submachine guns, this second volume has the really cool stuff: semiauto and select-fire rifles, machine guns, and last-ditch arms. It also includes a section on present...

Fair disclaimer: I may be biased, as I am a co-author of this work...

Vickers Guide is back with the second volume on the AK, specifically on 5.45mm and 5.56mm Kalashnikovs. If you like the first volume, you will definitely like this one - it was led by Larry Vickers with myself and Rob Stott ...

This is no ordinary firearms reference book. This is a 900-page, nearly 12 pound tome in Italian. And not justify Italian; hand-written cursive Italian. With a substantial number of hand-painted illustrations. It is about the history of the Terni Arsenal and its products, from the needlefire Carc...