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Announcing my Newest Book! Small Arms of WW2: Soviet Union (Ad-free)
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I'm very excited to announce my newest book: Small Arms of WWII - Soviet Union! This is the second volume in our Headstamp series of World War Two arms (the first was the United States). It's approximately 500 pages of gorgeous photography and insightful history on all the small arms of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War (as it is called in Russia). Specifically, I cover all the standard small arms and lots of experimental and early-production variations. The book is divided into chapter by type of weapon - Handguns, Submachine Guns, Bolt Action Rifles, Self-Loading Rifles, Sniper Rifles, Machine Guns, and miscellaneous Others.
One of the aspects I really like about doing this book is being able to bring a good baseline of information to the English language sphere about Soviet small arms. While we have a few references here and there, the majority of Russia weapons are very poorly documented in English. By working with a bunch of Russian-langauge research and materials I was able to put together a lot of information that has been previously unknown or misunderstood by most Western collectors and enthusiasts. To be clear, this book is not a detailed reference guide (nor was the first volume on US arms) - but my goal was to include a good overview of each weapon's development, operation, production, and use in the war.
We have preorders open and available now, and after two weeks we will send the book to our printer (knowing at that point how many copies we should print). We expect a 5-month time frame for printing and shipping, so we should have books in our warehouse and going out to you in mid-September. The price is $108 plus shipping, and we also have options for signed copies, slipcases, and signed copies with slipcases. We also have slipcases available for the US edition for those who are interested in them. We will be sending a batch of books from the printer directly to a shipping hub in France, which will reduce our shipping costs for European (and British) buyers - make sure to use the European option web site (https://www.headstampbook.com) if that applies for you!
Thanks!
Ian
Comments
Ripberger
I have ordered. Coincidentally, I just got a message from Headstamp about the Basilisk book orders finally getting through. Sounds like the logistics of getting the books out is a basilisk in and of itself.
firetower
I hope we get an East Vs West Cold War duo next. Complete with retro vibes and all the covert curios that might entail.
AC C
I love your work and wish you tremendous success with this book! But charging $60 for a retroactive slip case to a $98 unsigned/$128 signed edition book is an interesting choice... Is it made out of gold foil?
Guido Schriewer
aaaa splendido
Niels
My disappointment is immeasurable, but this book will help. Ordered!
Forgotten Weapons
We do have a book on cutaway ammunition in the planning stages, but I don't know when it will actually be ready or exactly what range of cartridges it will cover.
Forgotten Weapons
Sorry, but no.
Forgotten Weapons
Yep, I do.
Thomas Walls
I can't wait to order one! I already got 'Chassepot to FAMAS' and 'Pistols of the Warlords.'
Thomas Walls
Ian, I trust you will cover the adoption of the 7.62x25mm cartridge and how it was in essence copied from / based on the 7.63 Mauser round (some of the early SMGs were marked as such). I can't count how many times I've had to hip people to that fact!
Powers
I know you can't talk specifics about future projects until you have your vetting and research, planning and the rest of the endless work etc.. But out of curiosity and because I have an ammo collecting problem.. Have you guys thought about a book or books, series on ammunition or that monster subject? Just wishful thinking on my part but I wanted to ask just in case. And to see if I needed to start adding bookshelf space..
Niels
Awesome! Is there a patreon discount code?
Forgotten Weapons
The plan is a full volume on Italy. Since they were in for the whole war (basically), they did enough small arms development to justify a whole book. The combined book would be the countries that didn't do any development during the war, where we only have their pre-war lineup to work with.
Guido Schriewer
I know you have an interest in italian I would think that in combined smaller countries. "other countries" is a logical idea to do, think so too.
Forgotten Weapons
Thanks! I'm really excited for this one. :)
Forgotten Weapons
Yup, the next four volumes will be (no order planned yet) Germany, UK, Japan, Italy. Probably also a final volume covering several other countries together (France, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland)
Guido Schriewer
if mosins rifles got issued to frontline personal again in current theatre.... man chips has to be down at the bottom!
Norman A. Letterman
Very hype for this, that's a favorite topic
Powers
Nice! Got my order in. I love the quality and the content of the previous books from you guys. Looks great!
Glenn Miller
US book was awesome! Just put my order in for this one.
Guido Schriewer
that is still A LOT of work to do. british, jap, german ww2? you started a long journey there. did you put the sks in there as... well that was a field try so to speak in the war. kind of the no5 carbine norway thing. not a "thing" IN the war.
