"DESPERATE MEASURES" GERMAN WW2 VOLKSSTURM RIFLE PISTOL WEAPONS REFERENCE BOOK

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OUT OF PRINT FROM THE PUBLISHER!
In a last ditch effort to defend its shrinking frontiers, Germany called upon every able bodied man between the ages of 16 and 60 to be organized into the Volkssturm, literally "People's Storm", in late 1944. A 6 million man home guard, the Volkssturm was comprised mostly of old men and young boys, equipped in an ad hoc fashion with captured foreign arms, training and hunting rifles, one shot throw away anti-tank weapons, and hurriedly produced service rifles and SMGs. Volkssturm weapons have been of great interest to collectors for decades, leading W. Darrin Weaver to write an authoritative reference book on the subject in 2005. This "DESPERATE MEASURES" GERMAN WW2 VOLKSSTURM RIFLE PISTOL WEAPONS REFERENCE BOOK is in near mint, unread condition, with only some light scattered storage wear evident (most pictured). Otherwise, the book is in near mint shape, with no other damage. Most interestingly, it boasts an elegantly illustrated dust jacket over hardcovers, and sports 386 pages full of descriptive text, period pictures, and black and white photographs of German Volkssturm weapons of WW2, including simplified K-98s, Austrian Mannlicher rifles and carbines, Italian Carcano rifles and carbines, some of which were converted to fire the German 7.92mm cartridge, panzerfaust and panzerschreck anti-tank weapons, VG-1, VG-2, and VG-5 Volksgewehr rifles, German made clones of the British Sten, all kinds of Volkspistolen, and much, much more. A beautiful example of a "DESPERATE MEASURES" GERMAN WW2 VOLKSSTURM RIFLE PISTOL WEAPONS REFERENCE BOOK. Now celebrating over 20 years on eBay. Bid with confidence and please view our other great military, aviation, and sporting classics, including a German WW2 MWC LUFTWAFFE PILOT B-UHR AUTOMATIC WRIST WATCH in MINT, unworn, new in the box condition, sporting a crisp 60 minute/12 hour (outer/inner) white numbers black dial, and featuring the classic big "onion" crown and sweeping seconds hand with hacking function.
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