{"id":23260,"date":"2019-06-09T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/09\/book-review-p38-pistol-spreewerk-production\/"},"modified":"2019-06-09T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T12:00:07","slug":"book-review-p38-pistol-spreewerk-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/09\/book-review-p38-pistol-spreewerk-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: P38 Pistol &#8211; Spreewerk Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m3NxEWTS0gQ?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Available from Checkpoint Charlie&#8217;s:<br \/>(sorry, but you will have to Google it &#8211; YouTube does not allow links to sites that also sell firearms)<\/p>\n<p>I initially put off getting a copy of Jan Balcar and Ron Clarin&#8217;s book on the Spreewerk P38 because, well, I assumed it was just about Spreewerk. Upon finally reading it, I discovered that it is actually a very well-rounded history of the P38 as a whole, with particular extra attention given to Spreewerk. Originally written in Czech, it includes a great deal of information about the the city of Grottau where the Spreewerk factory was located. It also includes several sections on the other manufacturing done by Spreewerk, including a section on the VG-2 rifle.<\/p>\n<p>The book does a great job covering the development of the P38 in detail as well as its production. The specific variations made by Spreewerk are obviously a focal point, but reading just this book will provide a good overall understanding of the gun. For those who do not want to shell out $500+ for a set of Warren Buxton&#8217;s books, this would be my recommendation for the single best P38 book available. Krutzek&#8217;s recent work is a good companion to get details on the Walther and Mauser subtypes, but it provides much less background and context than Balcar and Clarin do.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this volume is mostly out of print today, and will be more difficult to find once Checkpoint Charlie&#8217;s sells out their remaining stock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>PO Box 87647<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85754<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available from Checkpoint Charlie&#8217;s:(sorry, but you will have to Google it &#8211; YouTube does not allow links to sites that also sell firearms) I initially put off getting a copy of Jan Balcar and Ron Clarin&#8217;s book on the Spreewerk P38 because, well, I assumed it was just about Spreewerk. Upon finally reading it, I&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/09\/book-review-p38-pistol-spreewerk-production\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: P38 Pistol &#8211; Spreewerk Production<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23261,"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-23260","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\/23260","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=23260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}