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Title The gun / C.J. Chivers.
Author Chivers, C. J. (Christopher John), author.
Publication Info. New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2010.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  623.4424 CHI    Check Shelves
 West Oaks  623.4424 CHI    Check Shelves
Edition 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Description 481 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Origins -- The birth of machine guns -- Machine guns in action -- Hiram Maxim changes war -- Slaughter made industrial : the Great War -- pt. 2. Invention and distribution -- Stalin's contest : the creation of the AK-47 -- The breakout : mass-production, distribution, and early use of the AK-47 -- pt. 3. Aftermath ; consequences of the AK-47's global spread -- The accidental rifle -- Everyman's gun -- Epilogue : the twentieth-first century's rifle.
Subject War -- History.
Machine guns -- Technological innovations -- History.
Firearms -- Technological innovations -- History.
AK-47 rifle -- History.
ISBN 0743270762
9780743270762 : $28.00