Hitler's Garands: German Self-Loading Rifles of World War II

Weaver, W. Darrin; Stevens. R Blake (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0889352755 / ISBN 13: 9780889352759

Published by Collector Grade Publications, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, 2001

About this Item

First edition, near fine, oversized hardcover in near fine dust jacket with both showing some very light trace wear. 361 pages with extensive bibliography and loaded with black & whites. Still an attractive copy of this work that makes up an installment in the popular Collector Grade series.

Seller Inventory # 35101

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hitler's Garands: German Self-Loading Rifles of World War II
• Publisher: Collector Grade Publications, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889352755
• ISBN 13: 9780889352759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First.
• Condition: Near fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Guns & Hunting

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Synopsis

Hitler's Wehrmacht began World War II armed with the bolt action K98k, a rifle only cosmetically different from that with which Imperial germany had fought the Great War a quarter-century earlier. Then in 1940, after a number of earlier disappointments, the Heereswaffenamt (HWaA, the Army Weapons Office) issued a requirement for a new self-loading rifle, although lingering official distrust of gas operation saw to it that a main stipulation remained: "The barrel may not be bored to extract gas."