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Buy a discounted paperback of luger online from australias leading online. A unique and indispensable reference book on the luger, the worlds most famous handgun. Other books on the parabellumpistole, as the luger was also known, focus strictly on narrow subjects. The luger pistol is probably the most immediately recognizable pistol in the world. Luger an illustrated history of the handguns of hugo borchardt and georg luger, 18751975.
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However, he opinions and facts in this particular book seem to me to get a bit shuffled and i have a hard time sorting documented fact from conjecture in. 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. The book traces the history and development of the pistols from the early days of the. The colchester plunderers 1999 was published by cambridge university press and won the royal historical societys whitfield prize. John walter has been writing military history books since 1968 and has. I doubt if any silhouette is better known, unless perhaps it. The luger book by john walter 82719 this is a softcover book that gives detailed information on the luger.
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