Language English Pages 496 Originally published 12 October 2010 Publisher Simon & Schuster Country United States of America | Publication date Oct 12, 2010 ISBN 0-74327-07-6-2 Page count 496 | |
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Website cjchivers.com/aboutthegun Genres Non-fiction, Military history | ||
The Gun is a nonfiction book written by C.J. Chivers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. It is about the AK-47 rifle and its variants, and the impact they have had on the world. It covers the origins of the design, its invention and distribution, and the consequences of the pattern's spread around the world.
Reviews
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, reviewer Tim Rutten said "...we live not so much in the Atomic Age but in the era of the Kalashnikov."
References
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