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i started reading this book.. if there's others please chime in!!

Well written and researched, "The Genesis of the Pocket Auto Pistol" is the exhaustive history of the development of pocket pistols. Covers a plethora of obscure designs from the late 19th century and early 20th century. This book reviews the Colt, Browning, Savage, Walther, Sauer and less famous but interesting American and European gun designs. Fun to read as well as educational, this book takes the reader all over the world, through the decades of war and peace and up to the pocket pistols of today, made through the use of CAD/CAM with space age materials and 3D printers. There are 300 pages and this book is loaded with high quality color photographs. Authored by Dr. Steven King, Phd in Gunocology, all-around good guy, serious collector of pocket pistols,early cartridge revolvers,Savage pistols and Smith & Wesson guns.