AK-47 : the weapon that changed the face of war / Larry Kahaner

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken NJ : John Wiley, 2007Description: xi, 258 pISBN:
  • 9780471726418 (hbk) :
Subject(s): Summary: Tells how and why Mikhail Kalashnikov created and developed the AK-47 and how this development fits with work done both in the USSR and other countries in the search for a cheap, efficient, effective automatic rifle. The main part of the book is concerned with the impact that the AK (and to a lesser extent other small arms) have had in conflicts, wars, insurgencies, and crime. Small arms account for the deaths of between 200,000 and 300,000 people every year. The availability of such weapons in large numbers has transformed conflict cancelling out the supposed advantages of high-tech equipment. Notes that controlling these weapons is a major problem but one which receives comparatively little attention compared to other better known WMD.
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Tells how and why Mikhail Kalashnikov created and developed the AK-47 and how this development fits with work done both in the USSR and other countries in the search for a cheap, efficient, effective automatic rifle. The main part of the book is concerned with the impact that the AK (and to a lesser extent other small arms) have had in conflicts, wars, insurgencies, and crime. Small arms account for the deaths of between 200,000 and 300,000 people every year. The availability of such weapons in large numbers has transformed conflict cancelling out the supposed advantages of high-tech equipment. Notes that controlling these weapons is a major problem but one which receives comparatively little attention compared to other better known WMD.

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