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Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006. 1st English Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Illustrated soft cover; slight wear round edges; authors & title on front; ditto on spine with pbl; book revues on the back. Cut edges slightly marked. Text block tight; pages clean bar the odd mark; gutters betw title & half-title page and betw pp 4-5 slightly loose; Contents Page at front; Notes, Glossary, Bibliography & Index at end; book contains several photo plates in the centre. First published in French in2003. Translated into English by Andrew Brown. No jacket.
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The Gun That Changed the World Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Mikhail Kalashnikov; Elena Joly (With); Andrew Brown (Translator)
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The Russian word that is most frequently spoken throughout the world isn't Lenin, gulag or perestroika, it's 'Kalashnikov'. The reason for this is simple: there are 80 million Kalashnikovs in circulation on five continents. Once invented, the AK-47 assault rifle became the most widely used weapon in the world: from Vietnam to Palestine, from Cuba to Iraq, it was at the heart of conflicts and struggles everywhere. It is the only firearm that has ever been depicted on a national flag - that of Mozambique, where it symbolizes liberation.
Mikhail Kalashnikov himself, who was born in 1919, here tells his life story, with the help of Elena Joly, for the first time: his deportation to Siberia with his family while still a child; his time as a soldier in a tank regiment; his invention of the world's most famous weapon and his turbulent life under Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin. This is a remarkable portrait of a man of ingenuity and vitality in the context of the often frightening and terribly unforgiving Russia of the twentieth century.
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- Title The Gun That Changed the World
- Author Mikhail Kalashnikov; Elena Joly (With); Andrew Brown (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
- Date 2006-10-27
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780745636924 / 0745636926
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 5.5 x 0.65 in (20.98 x 13.97 x 1.65 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress subjects AK-47 rifle, Kalashnikov, M. T
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
Citations
- Scitech Book News, 09/01/2007, Page 180
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