{"id":5306,"date":"2013-02-07T00:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/07\/book-review-central-powers-pistols-by-jan-still\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:31:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:31:30","slug":"book-review-central-powers-pistols-by-jan-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/07\/book-review-central-powers-pistols-by-jan-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Central Powers Pistols by Jan Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wjBPpfDLIJU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Central Powers Pistols, by Jan Still, is a bit of a neither-fish-nor-fowl book. It has many more and better quality photos than most heavy-duty reference works, but also has much more detailed information (particularly on markings and serial numbers) than most coffee table volumes. I wasn&#8217;t really sure what to make of it at first, but on further use I realized that it is pretty well designed as a collector&#8217;s reference guide. It doesn&#8217;t try to dig into the details of each gun&#8217;s design history, but instead focuses on the circumstances of their actual use. For example, the section on the 1910 Bergmann-Bayard notes that Germany overran the Pieper factory and ordered pistol production to continue, but the Belgian proof house was shut down &#8211; hence most of the 1910 Bergmanns used by the Germany military did not have proof marks. It&#8217;s details like this (and attention devoted to lists of recorded serial numbers and associated markings\/features) that make this a particularly good resource for folks who are interested more in collecting than in overall history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Powers Pistols, by Jan Still, is a bit of a neither-fish-nor-fowl book. It has many more and better quality photos than most heavy-duty reference works, but also has much more detailed information (particularly on markings and serial numbers) than most coffee table volumes. I wasn&#8217;t really sure what to make of it at first,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/07\/book-review-central-powers-pistols-by-jan-still\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: Central Powers Pistols by Jan Still<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5307,"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":[61,89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306","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=5306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5306\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}