TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chivers,C.J.
TI  - The gun
SN  - 0743270762
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - AK-47 rifle
KW  - History
KW  - Firearms
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Machine guns
KW  - War
N1  - 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
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