The gun
By: C.J. Chivers
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9780743270762
Subjects: Technological innovations; Machine guns; Firearms; AK-47 rifle; War; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins. The birth of machine guns; title: Machine guns in action; title: Hiram Maxim changes war; title: Slaughter made industrial : the Great War; title: Invention and distribution. Stalin's contest : the creation of the AK-47; title: The breakout : the mass-production, distribution, and early use of the AK-47; title: Aftermath. The accidental rifle; title: Everyman's gun; title: Epilogue : the twenty-first century's rifle; title: A note about the M16 series of rifles in 2010.