{"id":20878,"date":"2022-09-06T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/06\/new-book-review-third-reich-lugers-by-tom-whiteman\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T08:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:00:31","slug":"new-book-review-third-reich-lugers-by-tom-whiteman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/06\/new-book-review-third-reich-lugers-by-tom-whiteman\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Review: &#8220;Third Reich Lugers&#8221; by Tom Whiteman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z09FMUJdaa4?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Available on Amazon:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Ak8w3Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Ak8w3Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom Whiteman (of Legacy Collectibles) has just recently published &#8220;Third Reich Lugers: An Illustrated Collector&#8217;s Guide to German Military Lugers from World War II&#8221;. The full title pretty much says it all here; this is not a history of the Luger or its development &#8211; it&#8217;s specifically a collector&#8217;s guide. That means it includes the specific sort of data one needs to properly authentic or evaluate a Luger &#8211; proof marks, acceptance marks, serial numbers, and variations in finish and construction. <\/p>\n<p>The book is just over 300 pages, divided into chapters for each major variant form 1934 until 1945. Note that it DOES include Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe, police, and civilian-production pistols, but DOES NOT include foreign military contracts. Each chapter includes a table of data and a specific look at the army, navy, air force police, and commercial sub variants for that chapter. It does also include loading tools, imagines, and holsters. It also includes Whiteman&#8217;s entire database of Krieghoof Luger data at the end, which will no doubt be a valuable resource for advanced collectors.<\/p>\n<p>The cover price is $70, with a Kindle version available on Amazon for $30. I would consider this a must-have for anyone planning to buy a WWII German Luger; the price is essentially free when you consider the potential savings the first time is lets you recognize a good deal or avoid a bad one. 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Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available on Amazon:https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Ak8w3Y Tom Whiteman (of Legacy Collectibles) has just recently published &#8220;Third Reich Lugers: An Illustrated Collector&#8217;s Guide to German Military Lugers from World War II&#8221;. The full title pretty much says it all here; this is not a history of the Luger or its development &#8211; it&#8217;s specifically a collector&#8217;s guide. That means&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/06\/new-book-review-third-reich-lugers-by-tom-whiteman\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Book Review: &#8220;Third Reich Lugers&#8221; by Tom Whiteman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}