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Ultimate Thompson Book
Tracie L. Hill
Virtually every chapter and topic covered in Tracie Hill's critically acclaimed 1996 Collector Grade title Thompson: The American Legend has been expanded, and some new ones have been added in order to incorporate a vast amount of important new information augmenting every aspect of the history of the Auto Ordnance Corporation, the Thompson family, and the design and production of the hardware that bears the Thompson name. Much of this priceless new material, including personal memoirs, dimensioned blueprints and other rare memorabilia, has been bequeathed by key people who were intimately involved in the day to day operations of the company.
The post WWII history of the Thompson begins with more new documentation concerning the Kilgore Manufacturing Company, historically a manufacturer of cap pistols and pyrotechnics. Kilgore's plans to re-launch the M1A1 Thompson came to naught, and the next incarnation of Auto Ordnance was as part of the Numrich Arms Corporation in West Hurley, New York. Then the story shifts yet again, with up to date coverage of the products of the current proprietors, Kahr Arms.
Chapters on Thompson drum and box magazines are expanded to include original manufacturing drawings and operation detail sheets. Chapters on Web Gear, Other Ancillaries, and Models and Miniatures; then over 100 pages of updated listings of serial numbers of all 15,000 Colt Model 1921 Thompsons, with shipping dates and dispositions where known. Then an impressive display of rare, colorful original paper-handbooks, brochures, price lists, catalogs, and military manuals, both U.S. and foreign.
All this and much, much more-plus ten times more color than The American Legend.
Deluxe First Edition, 2009
872 pages, 1,201 illustrations, over 200 in color
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Illustrated History of the Gestapo, An (used)
Rupert Butler
This used book is in very good condition. The cover shows some minor shelf wear but the inside is clean and tight.
Rupert Butler has drawn on archives within Germany itself, unearthing original Gestapo documents. He has also consulted archives in Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia. One of the book's most engrossing chapters consists of interviews with survivors of Gestapo interrogation and torture, many of whom tell their remarkable stories for the first time.
Size 7.5 x 9.5
1992
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