Which Walther handguns is your friend interested in?
For the p38 series I would recommend The P38 Pistol, Germany’s famous service pistol in detail by Alexander Krutzek. Also, the Buxton three volume P38 series, though the books are older the information is still solid and it goes into more historical and development detail than the Krutzek book. Their is also a book dedicated to the spreewerke p38 but I’m not familiar enough with that book to know one way or the other.
I will have to leave anything about the other walther models pp, ppk, etc to other members.