TY  - BOOK
AU  - KAHANER Larry
TI  - AK-47: the weapon that changed the face of war 
SN  - 9780471726418 (hbk) :
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Hoboken NJ
PB  - John Wiley
KW  - ASSAULT RIFLES
KW  - SMALL ARMS
KW  - AK-47
N2  - 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
ER  -