The Handgun

by Geoffrey Boothroyd

Book Overview

This is a comprehensive and detailed study of the evolution of the most personal of weapons from the early matchlockes, wheellocks and flintlocks to the revolvers and automatics of today. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517132389
• ISBN13: 9780517132388
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Bond? Yes, indeed!

As an aside to this excellent book, it can be mentioned that Mjr. Boothroyd recommended to Ian Fleming that his new spy-story main character should use the new Walther PPK. That's right. The agent in question was James Bond, agent 007 of her British Majestys MI6. And, as a thank you, Mjr. Boothroyd appeared in the stories, and later the movies, as Q, the Equipment Officer.