AK-47: The Weapon that Changed the Face of War
by:
Larry Kahaner (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780471726418 (0471726419)
Publish date: October 1st 2006
Publisher: Wiley
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
The author uses the Kalashnikov rifle as the starting point for a sociopolitical discourse on everything from globalization to street crime. Unfortunately for him, a book like this requires attention to technical detail to be convincing, and this is sadly lacking. Kahaner is pretty obviously neither...