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Description edit
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, it was in fact a breakthrough—a compact... read more
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Characters/People edit
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- Hiram Maxim
- Mikhail Kalashnikov
- Karzan Mahmoud
- Stalin
- Mcnamara
- Gardner
- Kony
- Custer
- Thompson
- Khrushchev
- Kitchener
- Chervenak
- Elrod
- Hallock
- Lincoln
- Anderson
- Richard Gatling
- Yount
- Degtyarev
- Brezhnev
- Rogers
- Hitler
- Kurz
- Minin
- Nagy
- Fedorov
- Zaitsev
- Ito
- Westmoreland
- Afif
- Parker
- Macdonald
- Behrendt
- Stoner
- Balassa
- Ripley
- Wheeler
- Bulkin
- Simonov
- Fechter
- Katya
- Cummings
- Butler
- Colt
Setting & Locations edit
- United States Army
- Vietnam
- Soviet Union
- Kremlin
- Russia
- East Germany
- Moscow
- Europe
- Hungary
- Izhevsk
- China
- London
- Washington
- Iraq
- Uganda
- Egypt
- Afghanistan
- Africa
- Budapest
- England
- Ukraine
- Poland
- Schurovo
- France
- Hartford
- Wiesa
- Sudan
- Kurya
- Israel
- Albania
- Middle East
- Yugoslavia
- Romania
- Omdurman
- America
- Sieu Quan
- Munich
- Vienna
- Bulgaria
- Indiana
- Asia
- Ulundi
- Britain
- Paris
- Cuba
- Altai
- Berlin
- Kovrov
Authors & Contributors edit
- C. J. Chivers (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780743270762
Page Count: 481
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 9780743270762
Page Count: 481
Classification edit
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- Dewey: 623.4424
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Military › Weapons & Warfare › Conventional › Firearms
- Books › History › Russia
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