Books on the Subject : LUGERS

[Big Norm]

Hi Deaf! I agree with Tomh. but I would like to add my little 2 cents The Krieghoff Parabellum book by Gibson is interesting but I challenged a few facts in the book while I read it and the photography was horrible. I got the book. But if I lost it, I would not buy it again.


The "Luger Book" is an excellent book with a lot of good information in it. But sometimes the information is hard to find. There is not an index. Sometimes you have to just dig on you own. I make up my own index on articles the I find of particular interest to me at the back of the book. But I regard it as a must have for a serious Luger collector.


Reeses book "Luger Tips is an inexpensive good book. I found the price list at the end of the book, on Lugers that I probably will never see, facinated me. Plus it helped in giving me the privilege of talking to John Martz who is featured at the end of the book. But the book is limited in the Lugers that it covers. You get what you pay for in that respects.


Gortz and Walters' book "The Navy Luger" bored me. Too much about ships and did not break out the navy Lugers by model/year. Maybe I will reread it to see if I am mistaken.


If you have the three Stills books that tomh mentioned. The "Lugers at Random" by Kenyon, Reeses "Luger Tips" and Walters book "The Luger Book", then you have all that you need to set yourself on track.


The older Luger books I have avoided because the information may be dated and the photograghy isn't of the highest quality. But if you want them for a collection, then OK.


A little caution though. There has been some discussion on this forum about Jan Stills maybe republishing his "Imperial Luger" book and updating it. But that may or may not happen. Nothing seems to be official on that.

Big Norm