Robert,
After buying and reading many books about the P-08, I have come to the conclusion that there is no one book which covers all the bases and is error-free. "The Luger Story" is OK, and will have given you about as good a general study of Luger as you will find.
I highly recommend as your next book purchase, "Lugers At Random" by Charles Kenyon, Jr., Handgun Press, Glenview, Illinois. I believe it is currently back in print, it can be found any number of places including, occasionally, ebay, or perhaps there is a bookseller at the larger gun shows in your area.
This is a large-format book, it has some basic Luger information and then goes through all the major (and many of the minor) Luger variations catalog-fashion, with photographs of each as a case study. It is a fairly old book (first published 1968) but remains the best general compendium of the Luger.
There are a number of other excellent books on the market, but they are detail and diagnostic studies of particular varieties of Lugers, and perhaps more than you are looking for right now. They are fairly expensive, to boot. "Lugers At Random" will certainly do for starters, and you may find that it takes your interest in the direction of one or more of the other books.
Happy reading.
--Dwight
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