Book review
Russian Hand-to-Hand Combat Manual
It has come to our attention that our friend Boris Karpa – who helped us out translating a batch of test reports on the Dror LMG – has released his first work on Amazon. It’s […]
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Book review
Book Review: Mannlicher Military Rifles
We really liked the last book we reviewed by Paul Scarlata (German Gewehr 88 “Commission” Rifle), and so we decided to grab another one off the shelf. Today, it’sMannlicher Military Rifles, and Scarlata does another […]
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Book Review and a Refinishing Discount
As always, we have a book review to look at today, but we also have a neat video we put together for GunLab on hydroprint refinishing. On a recent trip down to Florida we had […]
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Book Review: The World’s Assault Rifles
Gary Paul Johnston and Thomas Nelson’s The World’s Assault Rifles is always one of the first books we turn to for information on automatic rifles. At 1200+ pages, it’s a huge tome and a massive […]
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Books, Magazines, and David Tubb
If you were interested in Bin Shih’s very nice book on Chinese firearms of the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) but didn’t get one before they sold out, you’re in luck! He’s going to be running […]
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Book Review: Automatwaffen II
It’s a bit of a different book review today – since we’ve been looking at Swiss arms all week (and there’s a really unique one coming up tomorrow), we needed to find a book on […]
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Book Review: Japanese Submachine Guns by William Easterly
Today we’re taking a look at William Easterly’s booklet “A Comprehensive Study [of] Japanese Submachine Guns: 1920 – 1945”. Talk about a subject with very little written coverage – Easterly has photos, data, and descriptions […]
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Book Review: Hatcher’s Notebook, by Julian Hatcher
I was looking through our reference library yesterday, and realized that we hadn’t mentioned at Hatcher’s Notebook before – which is a glaring oversight. Julian S. Hatcher (Captain Hatcher during WWI, and Major General Hatcher […]
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Book Review: Collector’s Guide to Tokarev Pistols
Today we have a copy of John Remling’s work, a “Collector’s Guide to Tokarev Pistols”. It’s a thin volume, but a good introduction and basic reference to the development of the TT33 Tokarev pistol and […]
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Book Review: Hitler’s Garands by W. Darrin Weaver
By request from a reader on the Forgotten Weapons Facebook page (where we post upcoming teasers, among other things), we are looking at W. Darren Weaver’s book on the G41 and G43/K43 rifles, entitled Hitler’s […]