German Automatic Weapons of World War II
by Robert Bruce

Exceptional color photographs (great photography!) and an authoritative text reveal the individual charateristics of weapons used by German soldiers during WWII.

Weapons are shown being handled by firers wearing authentic period uniforms and field equipment placing the weapon in its correct historical context. Weapons profiled include: Mauser Schnellfeuer machine pistol; Maschinenpistole MP40 sub-machine gun; Maschinengewehr (machine gun) MG34  and MG42; Fallschirmjaegergewehr (FG) 42-I and 42-II paratroop assault weapons and the Sturmgewehr StG44 assault rifle.

From the front flap:
In this attractive new treatment, the seven classic automatic weapons of the World War II German Wehrmacht are illustrated in colour photographs — with a difference. Detailed sequences show them in close-up; during step-by-step field stripping; and during handling, loading, and live firing trials in outdoor settings, by gunners wearing authentic period uniforms to put these historic guns in their visual context.

The illustrations are accompanied by concise accounts of each weapon's historical and technical background; and by accessible, non-technical descriptions of its actual firing characteristics, from the viewpoint of the ordinary infantryman, as revealed in these trials by experienced shooters. The reader will learn exactly what it looked like, sounded like and felt like to fire the automatic weapons which took the German soldier from Poland to Stalingrad, and back to the ruins of Berlin.

Hardcover: 128 pages ; Dimensions0.61 x 12.04 x 8.63"
201 color illus.
Publisher: Motorbooks International; ISBN: 1861262698; (November 1998)
List price $44.95
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