First of all: Sorry - this book is in German language only.
It is not only the first book on Austrian pistols anyway but the ultimative book on early European self loading pistols. It contains general chapters about various fields like patents, proofing arms in Austria-Hungary, the small arms system (procurment, testing, organization) in the Austrian armed forces, and so on. In the main chapters of the individual pistol systems there are model tables of the pistols, remarks on the finish, serial number tables, ammunition data and all other details belonging to the guns.
The book is based on documents of the Austrian War Archives, Patent Office and various other public and private archives and collections. Guns of the most important special collections on the field in Europe and the USA have been photographed in excellent quality. Most of them are shown for the first time.
A lot of new facts are presented to the public, e.g. the exact amount of Steyr-Hahn and Roth-Steyr manufacture or sensational data of Borchardt and Luger pistols in connection with Austrian military trials.
Brand new!
The book deals with the following pistol systems:
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Repeating Pistols:
BITTNER FORTELKA & BRÜLL FORTELKA & LEITNER Klubnikoff (sword pistol) KRNKA KRNKA & RÍHA LAUMANN PASSLER PASSLER & SEIDL REYES (sword pistol) RIEGER SCHULHOF HUNGARIAN ARMS Co. - BUDAPEST VANYEK |
Self Loading Pistols:
AUST BELICZAY BERGMANN / MARS BORCHARDT BRAUSWETTER CHRONIS CHYLEWSKI CLARUS FROMMER GLISENTI HORNUNG (sword pistol) KRAG KROMAR KULHANEK |
LAUMANN LUGER / PARABELLUM MANNLICHER ROTH / KRNKA ROTH / SAUER ROTH / THEODOROVIĆ SCHÖNBERGER / LAUMANN PIEPER PIEPER / WARNANT SALVATOR / DORMUS SCHWARZLOSE STEYR / PIEPER STEYR SUNNGÁRD THEODOROVIĆ TOMISCHKA |
In a second volume, issued in a few years, the new delvelopments of WWI, of the interwar period and of the time after WWII will be included. So the scope of this second volume will stretch from the assault pistols of WWI until the GLOCK.....
Horizontal format 30 x 21 cm, hard bound, 872 pages in colour, about 1.800 pictures (photos and drawings), ISBN 978-3-9502342-0-6, self published by the authors, Laxenburg and Braunau 2007, price without shipping expenses € 119,--
Order already now from one of the both authors (in advance payment).
Author Joschi SCHUY schuy@waffenbuecher.com Author Josef MÖTZ kontor@waffenbuecher.com
In the USA and Canada it is available from Mowbray Publishing for US-$ 163,--, see http://www.manatarmsbooks.com/motzschuy.html