Modern combat pistols : the development of semi-automatic pistols for military and police service since 1945 /
Maxim Popenker
- Crowood Press, 2006
- 302 p. : ill.
Illustrated with photographs and line drawings this book gives a general introduction to service hand guns followed by a review of pistols by country of manufacture. Appendices cover design and function of a semi-automatic pistol, basics of silencers, and modern pistol ammunition.