SteyrAUG
05-27-16, 15:22
Just finished reading this one.
http://www.amazon.com/Gun-C-J-Chivers/dp/0743271734/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1464379903&sr=1-1&keywords=the+gun+chivers
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I probably have a couple hundred firearms books in my library but it's been a long time since I bought one and even longer since one truly impressed me. This isn't really a "specs and tech" book on firearms but a historical overview of rapid fire weapons beginning with the Gatling and concluding with the AK-47 and M-16. And it is told in a way that focuses on people, time and place.
Includes a lot of history that didn't seem to make it into other books devoted to the subject and it addresses many contradictions in the official "AK-47 Story" and the information provided to the west by the USSR in the mid 1980s.
This is also one of the most enjoyable books on firearms development that I've read in a long time. Reads more like a Stephen Ambrose book on the subject of WWII than a Collectors Grade Publications book on firearms.
http://www.amazon.com/Gun-C-J-Chivers/dp/0743271734/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1464379903&sr=1-1&keywords=the+gun+chivers
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kmOSWgiTL._SX327_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
I probably have a couple hundred firearms books in my library but it's been a long time since I bought one and even longer since one truly impressed me. This isn't really a "specs and tech" book on firearms but a historical overview of rapid fire weapons beginning with the Gatling and concluding with the AK-47 and M-16. And it is told in a way that focuses on people, time and place.
Includes a lot of history that didn't seem to make it into other books devoted to the subject and it addresses many contradictions in the official "AK-47 Story" and the information provided to the west by the USSR in the mid 1980s.
This is also one of the most enjoyable books on firearms development that I've read in a long time. Reads more like a Stephen Ambrose book on the subject of WWII than a Collectors Grade Publications book on firearms.