Firearm Books

[Peter Laidler]

The problem with general gun books is that - and I'm going to try hard to be the diplomatic devils advocate now......... - sooooo many of them become just simply picture books or what someone unkindly called them, '....the big boys bumper bedtime book of firearms/guns/pistols/rifles' etc etc. When you think that just reading the thread(s) on No5 bayonets (or even No7 bayonets for a better example.....) you could write a complete book about just those two examples. The Sten is another...... As Harold Turpins daughter said in a letter to me '...we had no idea that here was so much to write about regarding the Sten, but we........'. And while it's not a lot, some new info is STILL coming out!

I have to say that even in the huge supposedly technical library at Warminster, there were some '...big boys bumper.....' type books, best described kindly as 'wanting in detail' that I look at past the first few pages purely out of sheer curiosity! Indeed, two of them from English authors are separately described here.

Please feel free to slate me off of course.

Ooooooops.... sorry. Just had to amend first line. Delete GIN and insert GUN. But it could easily be Gin!!!!!