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Book Review: Echoes of an African War
Chas Lotter was 22 when, in 1971, he enlisted as a field medic in the Rhodesian Army. He served until 1980, leaving as a Sergeant and emigrating to South Africa. His book, “Echoes of an […]
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Book Review Double Feature: Webley Solid Frame Revolvers
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 […]
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Book Review: German Military Rifles and Machine Pistols 1871-1945
I have had several people ask if I might write a book on the development of German military rifles in the same format as my book on French rifles. I do not plan to, in […]
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Book Review: P38 Pistol – Spreewerk Production
I initially put off getting a copy of Jan Balcar and Ron Clarin’s book on the Spreewerk P38 because, well, I assumed it was just about Spreewerk. Upon finally reading it, I discovered that it […]
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Book Review: Machine Gun Accessories & Support Equipment
Robert G. Segel, long-time editor of Small Arms Review magazine, has just published a book on machine gun accessories and equipment, and it’s a very valuable new piece of reference material for the community. Mr. […]
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Book Review: The US Rifle M14 – The Last Steel Warrior
The M14 rifle is a rather controversial arm in American military service. As Frank Iannamico’s title says, it was the last steel-and-wood infantry rifle to be adopted by the US military, and it has a […]
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Book Review: The Dreyse Military Needle-Ignition System
Leonard and Guy A-R-West have released the second book in their series on antique military rifles, this time on the Dreyse system. As anyone interested in the Dreyse has probably already learned, there is very […]
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Book Review: Basque-Made Rolling Blocks of the 3rd Carlist War
This new book from Mowbray is an English translation of a work originally written in Spanish by Fernando de Aguinaga and Jose Luis de Aguinaga, which clearly involved a tremendous amount of original research. The […]
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Book Review: Foundations of Sniper Marksmanship
John C. Simpson has been teaching military and police sniper training since 1985 – nearly as long as I have been alive. I encountered him back when I filmed a video on a Confederate Whitworth […]
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Book Review: La Régia Fabbrica d’Armi di Terni
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 […]