Hitlers Garands: German Self-loading Rifles of World War II

Weaver, W. Darrin.

ISBN 10: 0889352755 / ISBN 13: 9780889352759

Published by Collector Grade, 2001

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very nice copy; larger-format.

Seller Inventory # 056084

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hitlers Garands: German Self-loading Rifles of World War II
• Publisher: Collector Grade
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889352755
• ISBN 13: 9780889352759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nazi Germany
  • Second World War
  • Firearrms

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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."