Book review

Book Review: Communist Bloc Handguns by George Layman

June 24, 2018 Ian McCollum 7

There is not really a good reference book available on Communist Bloc pistols – or at least there wasn’t until now. George Layman has just released this overview of Cold War handguns from the USSR, […]

A Book and a Rifle: The Vercors Resistance in WWII

May 20, 2018 Ian McCollum 13

One of the single largest actions of the French Resistance during World War Two was Operation Montagnards – the plan to drop about 4,000 Allied paratroops onto the Vercors Massif when the resistance was activated […]

Book review: Experiment and Trial by Mathieu Willemsen

May 13, 2018 Ian McCollum 6

Americans can order the book from Gun and Sword Collector, and Europeans should order from Verlag Militaria. Experiment and Trial, by Mathieu Willemsen, is a catalogue of the 218 guns in the collection of the Dutch […]

Book Review: The Wipers Times

May 6, 2018 Ian McCollum 34

Get your copy here: https://amzn.to/2HT1wyC or here: https://amzn.to/2JOpMm3 The Wipers Times was a satirical trench newspaper printed from February 1916 until December 1918 by British Captain F.J. Roberts and a crew of assistants. Such papers […]

Book Review: Serbian Army Weapons of Victory 1914-1918

April 29, 2018 Ian McCollum 3

Serbia, as one of the minor powers of World War One, if usually overlooked by history books – and is especially overlooked by firearms reference books. Want to know about the M1899/07 Mauser rifles? The […]

Book Review – The Mac Man: Gordon B Ingram and His Submachine Guns

April 22, 2018 Ian McCollum 22

Gordon Ingram served as an infantryman during World War Two, and decided to get into the gunmaking business after the war. He though there was a market for a submachine gun for police and military […]

Book Review: The Kalashnikov Encyclopaedia by Drs. Cor Roodhorst

April 15, 2018 Ian McCollum 4

All three volumes available worldwide from: http://www.kalashnikov-encyclopaedia.com While there are several books available which showcase a decent number of different Kalashnikov variants (like Tokoi’s work), and there are good reference works on the history and […]