A number of newly discovered variants are identified and described, and expanded tables of reported serial numbers and production data are provided. Significant changes are included based on new findings, and a great deal of new information has been added, together with color illustrations of significant specimens. Signal pistols, foreign-procured military handguns, ammunition, holsters, and accessories are also covered. The authors have retained the format and much of the text of the original edition, focusing on military cartridge arms from the 1893-1945 period. In this new Revised and Expanded edition, original author Harry Derby has teamed with Jim Brown to provide a thorough update reflecting twenty years of additional research. To arms collectors and scholars, it remains a prized source of information on Japanese handguns, their development, and their history. When originally published in 1981, The Hand Cannons of Imperial Japan was heralded as one of the most readable works on firearms ever produced. ILLUSTRATIONS: 608 b/w and colour photographsĬLICK HERE TO GET BOOK Book Japanese Military Cartridge Handguns, 1893-1945 Description/Summary: This latest book on Italian military small arms is the culmination of years of research on the subject. His native Italian fluency has enabled him to develop extensive contacts with Italian military history experts and to delve deeply into research on Italian weapons and history. He has written numerous magazine articles, many in Italian, as well as having authored several books dealing with Italian and Irish military equipment and history. AUTHOR: Ralph Riccio spent twenty years as a U.S. In addition to the new material, it also corrects previously published errors about Italian weapons. It includes many previously unpublished photographs and background information on small arms producers, ammunition production facilities, and designers. Other appendices cover bayonets, accoutrements, markings, ammunition, small arms manufacturing facilities, Italian small arms designers, production summaries, and collector's notes. It describes each weapon and covers the developmental history and use of all Italian designed and produced pistols, rifles, submachine guns and machine guns used during both conflicts, as well as prototype weapons and foreign weapons used by the Italians. This is the first comprehensive work, in either English or Italian, to address Italian small arms used during World War I and World War II.
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