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Index
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
1 - Prologue: From a Burning Brand to the Cap-Lock
2 - The First Multi-Shot Guns
Revolving Pistols
The American Civil War
Turret Guns and Magazine Repeaters
3 - The Metallic Cartridge
The Pin-Fire Cartridge
Rim-Fire and Centre-Fire Cartridges
The Road to Mass Production
Ever-Increasing Sophistication
Magazine Pistols: The First Steps
The Later Mechanical Repeaters
Multi-Threat Weapons
4 - The Pre-1900 Automatic Pistols
The First Auto-Loading Pistols
The Borchardt Pistol
The Borchardt Legacy
The Genius of John Browning
5 - The Perfected Automatic Pistol, 1900 – 14
The German Pistol Trials and the Borchardt-Luger
Pistols and the US Army, 1904 – 11
Fabrique Nationale and the Browning Pistols
The Browning Copies
6 - The First World War
Handguns: The Central Powers
Handguns: The Allies
7 - Between the Wars
Fabrique Nationale and the Brownings
The Pistol in Japan
The Czechoslovak Story
Double-Action: The Walther Polizei-Pistole
Poland and the Radom
France: Le Français and Petter
Finland: The Lahti
The Later Japanese Guns
Spanish Handguns Between the Wars
The Pistolet à Grande Puissance
The Olympia Pistole
Revolvers and Combination Guns
8 - The Second World War
Handguns and the German Envelopment of Europe
Handguns and Japan
The Lahti in Wartime
Production and the Stress of War
9 - The Modern Era
The Commercial Scene
Military Trials: Beretta and Glock
The Revolver
Target Shooting: Hämmerli and Walther
Single-Shot and Repeating Pistols
Automatic Pistols: Research and Development
Bibliography
Index
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