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AK-47
the weapon that changed the face of war
By Kahaner, Larry
- ISBN
- 978-0-47172-641-8
- Publisher
- Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2007.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2006
Journalist Kahaner (The Quotations of Chairman Greenspan: Words from the Man Who Can Shake the World ) presents a detailed study of the AK-47, the single most deadly weapon ever produced, and its designer. Mikhail Kalashnikov, a mechanically inclined Russian soldier, came up with this simple submachine gun to counter superior German weaponry during World War II. Brought into mass production in 1947 (this date ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
