The Gun that Changed the World Hardback - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Elena Joly
- New
- Hardcover
Description
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Details
- Title The Gun that Changed the World
- Author Elena Joly
- Binding Hardback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press
- Date 2006-10-27
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Annotated, Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780745636917
- ISBN 9780745636917 / 0745636918
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.36 x 6.3 x 0.87 in (21.23 x 16.00 x 2.21 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
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From the rear cover
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.