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The ak47, or kalashnikov, is the most abundant and efficient firearm on earth. J download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Dubbed the ak47, it was selected as the eastern blocs standard arm. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapidfire arms from the american civil war, through world war i and vietnam, to presentday afghanistan, when kalashnikovs and their knockoffs number as many as 100 million, one for every seventy persons on earth. Chivers describes the ak47 as a product of the soviet system. The man survives to ask questions that chivers examines with rigor and flair. At the most basic level, chivers focuses on the original ak47 and its many. It is perhaps the most potent question to echo from the cold war. Federal gun laws protect you, set limits, control the authorities, take care of criminals, and if you want to fix the bad ones, you need to know what they are. Aug 23, 2018 in 2009 he was part of a team that won the pulitzer prize for international reporting for coverage from afghanistan and pakistan. The new york times chivers succeeds admirably by putting the gun into its social, historical and technological context in an evocative narrative. He fails to add the same criticism to gatling, maxim or stoner.
Oct 12, 2010 the gun dismantles myths as it moves from the naive optimism of the industrial revolution through the treacherous milieu of the soviet union to the inside records of the taliban. The gun produced by mt kalashnikov in 1946 utilised excess gas from each shot to eject the spent shell casing and begin the next cycle of fire. Chivers extraordinary new book tells an alternative history of the world as seen through these terrible weapons. Chivers vividly depicts the false starts and the eventual success, as when the gun aided in suppressing the 1956 hungarian revolution, and its subsequent global distribution and evolution into. In 2009 he was part of a team that won the pulitzer prize for international reporting for coverage from afghanistan and pakistan. The jassykishinev operation, 1 9 10 11 notes 1 named after the two major cities, ia. The gun is a nonfiction book written by journalist c.
Available on kindle ebook and can be read on any device with the free kindle app. More than fifty national armies carry the automatic kalashnikov, as do an array of police, intelligence, and security agencies all over the world. If it available for your country it will shown as book reader and user fully subscribe will benefit by having full access. Chivers is a correspondent for the new york times and a writeratlarge for the new york times magazine. Chivers tells of the 19thcentury inventor in indianapolis who designs a civil war killing machine, insisting that moreefficient slaughter will save lives. Chivers about the ak47 rifle and its variants, and the impact they have had on the world. Throughout, the gun animates unforgettable charactersinventors, salesmen, heroes, megalomaniacs, racists, dictators, gunrunners, terrorists, child soldiers, government careerists, and fools. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapidfire arms from the american civil war, through wwi, vietnam, to present day. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The authors stories give heartrending meaning to the lives and deaths of these men and women, even if policymakers generally have not. Chivers tells a remarkable story of how this one, superbly reliable firearm became the most abundant ever produces alistair horne, author of the price of gloryand a savage war of peacethe ak47, or kalashnikov, is the most efficient firearm on earth.
Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapidfire arms from the american civil war, through wwi, vietnam, to present day afghanistan when kalashnikovs and their knockoffs number as. Oct 12, 2010 chivers seems to lay the blame of this solely on kalashnikov, and falls a tiny bit short of calling him a liar. The m16 sure is a marvelous gun, and in a godawful war it provides some keen fun. Ceeol provides scholars, researchers and students with access to a wide range of academic content in a constantly growing, dynamic repository. He is the author of the gun, which is now, and forever will be, the definitive history of the kalashnikov. Before i go on, however, it should be pointed out that the gun by c. Chivers an excerpt from the book the gun, published in esquire, november 1 st, 2010.
Drawing from years of research, interviews, and from declassified records revealed for the first time, he presents a richly human. Well, there were certainly many factors, but an important new book forces us to consider this. The gun cj chivers free the gun cj chivers the gun the fighters chivers has no intention of mythologizing this rifle the development of the gun and its subsequent worldwide use is tellingly set in a longer and wider historical context the narrative is a critical and intelligent interrogation of a story shrouded in soviet doublespeak the gun c. He was suspended on the gallows for thirty minutes, and then pronounced dead, the end of the journey of the first known revolutionary to carry what would become known as the revolutionarys gun. This username is already registered, please choose another one. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of. The bullet it fires appears too small to harm but it makes a big hole and can tear off an arm.
The gun downloadable audiobook pima county public library. Single shot, semi, or full automatic, a real awesome weapon, tho in performance sporadic. The unabridged guide to every federal gun law on the books, in plain english. Not only does chivers deliver the goods on the ak47 and kalashnikov. His magazine story the fighter won the 2017 pulitzer prize in feature writing. Drawing from years of research, interviews, and from declassified records revealed for the first time, he presents a richly. At a secret armsdesign contest in stalins soviet union, army technicians submitted a stubby rifle with a curved magazine. It covers the origins of the design, its invention and distribution, and the consequences of the patterns spread around the world.
The 2nd and 3rd ukrainian fronts of the red army engaged army group south ukraine, which consisted of combined german and romanian formations, in an. The gun dismantles myths as it moves from the naive optimism of the industrial revolution through the treacherous milieu of the soviet union to the inside records of the taliban. Author of the fighters, an unvarnished account of the rankandfile experience of modern combat in afghanistan and iraq, called a a classic by the new york times, a memorial in pages by the washington post, and an honest reckoning by the wall street journal. Chivers s extraordinary new book tells an alternative history of the world as seen through these terrible weapons.
Former marine officer and new york times moscow bureau chief chivers hardly mentions his subject in the books first third as he recounts the history of automatic weapons from the american civil war to world war i with familiar eponyms. Drawing from years of research, interviews, and from declassified records revealed for the first time, he presents a richly human account of an evolution in the very experience of war. The gun is likely to become the standard account of the worlds standard assault rifle. Throughout, the gun animates unforgettable charactersinventors, salesmen, heroes, megalomaniacs, racists, dictators, gunrunners, terrorists, child soldiers, government careerists, and. Neither progun nor antigun, the gun builds to a terrifying sequence, in which a young man who confronts a trio of assassins is shattered by 23 bullets at close range. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the. The quest for an individual weapon with the firepower of a light machine gun and the portability of a machine pistol dated from the first world war, but stalin gave it top priority with the beginning of the cold war. Chivers has written a superb history lesson wrapped around the story of the russian ak47 assault rifle and its namesake. He makes a big event of the fact that the gun was designed by a committee they all are but seems to think this means that kalashnikov deserves none of the design credit. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapidfire arms from the american civil war, through world war i and vietnam, to presentday afghanistan, when kalashnikovs and their knockoffs number as many as 100 million, one for every seventy.
Chivers served as an infantry officer in the united states marine corps. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the the gun seller, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. Chivers an excerpt from the book the gun, published in esquire, november 1st, 2010. View notes chivers 2010 from ant 261 at north carolina state university.
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