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Earl Naramore's Principles and Practice of Loading Ammunition, Samworth, 1954 is the best single book on ammunition I have seen. There are about 500 pages dealing with how and why components are made the way they are, followed by about 300 pages of how best to load ammunition. Naramore was quite well qualified: he worked for Lyman prior to WWII, and was in charge of several ammunition testing programs during the war.
Some information concerning primers is dated: non corrosive, non mercuric primers were neither uniform nor standardized at the time this was written.
This book is out of print, but well worth the effort it will take to find.
Bob
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