When originally published in 1981, The Hand Cannons of Imperial Japan was heralded as one of the most readable works on firearms ever produced. To arms collecto

This volume has been prepared as an inexpensive guide to Japanese military handguns of the first half of the 20th Century. It is intended primarily for the coll

This is the first English language work to examine the subject in detail and the first in any language to identify, describe, and quantify variations and produc