The gun /
Chivers, C. J.
The gun / C.J. Chivers. - 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. - 481 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origins -- The birth of machine guns -- Machine guns in action -- Hiram Maxim changes war -- Slaughter made industrial : the Great War -- Invention and distribution -- Stalin's contest : the creation of the AK-47 -- The breakout : mass production, distribution, and early use of the AK-47 -- Aftermath ; consequences of the AK-47's global spread -- The accidental rifle -- Everyman's gun -- Epilogue : the twentieth-first century's rifle.
0743270762 9780743270762
2010020459
AK-47 rifle--History.
Firearms--Technological innovations--History.
Machine guns--Technological innovations--History.
War--History.
The gun / C.J. Chivers. - 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. - 481 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origins -- The birth of machine guns -- Machine guns in action -- Hiram Maxim changes war -- Slaughter made industrial : the Great War -- Invention and distribution -- Stalin's contest : the creation of the AK-47 -- The breakout : mass production, distribution, and early use of the AK-47 -- Aftermath ; consequences of the AK-47's global spread -- The accidental rifle -- Everyman's gun -- Epilogue : the twentieth-first century's rifle.
0743270762 9780743270762
2010020459
AK-47 rifle--History.
Firearms--Technological innovations--History.
Machine guns--Technological innovations--History.
War--History.