PROLOGUE
Stalin’s Tools of War
I. ORIGINS
CHAPTER 1
The Birth of Machine Guns
CHAPTER 2
Machine Guns in Action
CHAPTER 3
Hiram Maxim Changes War
CHAPTER 4
Slaughter Made Industrial: The Great War
II. INVENTION AND DISTRIBUTION
CHAPTER 5
Stalin’s Contest: The Invention of the AK-47
CHAPTER 6
The Breakout: The Mass Production, Distribution, and Early Use of the AK-47
III. AFTERMATH THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE AK-47’S GLOBAL SPREAD
CHAPTER 7
The Accidental Rifle
CHAPTER 8
Everyman’s Gun
EPILOGUE
The Twenty-first Century’s Rifle
A NOTE ABOUT THE M-16 SERIES OF RIFLES IN 2010
NOTES
Prologue: Stalin’s Tools of War
1. The Birth of Machine Guns
2. Machine Guns in Action
3. Hiram Maxim Changes War
4. Slaughter Made Industrial: The Great War
5. Stalin’s Contest: The Invention of the AK-47
6. The Breakout: The Mass Production, Distribution, and Early Use of the AK-47
7. The Accidental Rifle
8. Everyman’s Gun
Epilogue: The Twenty-first Century’s Rifle
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ILLUSTRATIONS
INDEX
Copyright
