TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chivers,C.J.
TI  - The gun
SN  - 9780743270762
U1  - 623.4424  
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - War
KW  - History
KW  - Machine guns
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Firearms
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Origins. The birth of machine guns -- Machine guns in action -- Hiram Maxim changes war -- Slaughter made industrial : the Great War -- Invention and distribution. Stalin's contest : the creation of the AK-47 -- The breakout : the mass-production, distribution, and early use of the AK-47 --  Aftermath. The accidental rifle -- Everyman's gun -- Epilogue : the twenty-first century's rifle -- A note about the M16 series of rifles in 2010
ER  -