1944 German Police Weapons and Shooting Technical Guide

WAFFEN UND SCHIESSTECHNISCHER LEITFADEN FÜR DIE ORDNUNGSPOLIZEI - Weapons and Shooting Technical Guide for the Order Police. The 1944 edition of the German Police Weapon and Shooting Technical Guide (Leitfaden - pronounced LITE Fawden) is now fully translated and in print. This book is now 700 pages of English, in hard-cover format, 6" x 9" with over 400 illustrations, and over 2" (5 cm) thick. The Table of Contents and the first 20 pages are in a PDF file below. There is so much information in this book that showing a few individual pages just doesn't do it justice. 3 of the 12 color illustrations are also listed below. I spent a year working on this book. Be sure to read the table of contents to see what this book covers. While this book was published in 1944 for the German Order Police, the weapon and shooting technical information in it is useful to everyone interested in the German techniques for shooting and the weaponry common to the Order Police, but also includes information on the MG42, MG34, Luger, P-38, earlier MPs and the MP38/40. There is no other book that compares to this volume.
The first and second editions of the Leitfaden were published in 1940 and were practically identical; the third, corrected and expanded edition, was published in 1941; the fourth, also a later corrected and again expanded edition, was published in 1943; and the last and most complete edition, the fifth, which was again corrected and expanded even further, was published in 1944.
Even when the books had the same page count, they were expanded by using smaller type to get more information in each book. Many pages of the printing in the 1944 edition were in 8 point type (a point is 1/72 of an inch); average type size for a book is 12 point. I had to scan each page and zoom in on my screen to be able to read it, but it was worth the trouble.
The cost of acquiring the original book was high, as few have survived with all the pages and pictures intact. Printing costs have increased dramatically in the last couple years. This book is not inexpensive, but is professionally printed and bound, with heavier than normal paper.