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The Gun Book

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  • The Gun
  • Written by author C. J. Chivers
  • Published by Tantor Media, Inc., October 2010
  • In a tour de force, prizewinning New York Times reporter C. J. Chivers traces the invention and mass distribution of the assault rifle and its effects on war. The New York Times - Patrick Hennessey [Chivers] writes both with technical prec
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Prologue: Stalin's Tools of War 1

I ORIGINS

1 The Birth of Machine Guns 25

2 Machine Guns in Action 39

3 Hiram Maxim Changes War 68

4 Slaughter Made Industrial: The Great War 107

II INVENTION AND DISTRIBUTION

5 Stalin's Contest: The Invention of the AK-47 143

6 The Breakout: The Mass Production, Distribution, and Early Use of the AK-47 201

III AFTERMATH: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE AK-47'S GLOBAL SPREAD

7 The Accidental Rifle 263

8 Everyman's Gun 337

Epilogue: The Twenty-first Century's Rifle 409

A Note About the M-16 Series of Rifles in 2010 415

Notes 417

Acknowledgments 449

Index 459


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