The Gun by C.J. Chivers

The Gun

C.J. Chivers

496 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin's Soviet Union, army technicians submitted a stubby rifle with a curved magazine. Dubbed the AK-47, it was selected as the Eastern Bloc's standard arm. Scoffed at in the Pentagon as crude and unimpressive,...

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