HISTORY WRIT IN STEEL, STANDARD EDITION; German Police Markings 1900 - 1936, by L Donald Maus, with forward by Joe Wotka features 384 pages with about 350 full-color illustrations (photos, maps, charts, documents). Extensive tables contain data on over 2,300 observed police markings. The book will be very useful to collectors, buyers and sellers of German police artifacts (handguns, rifles, edged weapons, holsters, etc.) and those interested in the history of the police during this turbulent era in Germany.