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Chivers has written a superb history lesson wrapped around the story of the russian ak47 assault rifle and its namesake. Federal gun laws protect you, set limits, control the authorities, take care of criminals, and if you want to fix the bad ones, you need to know what they are. Inspector john maddenwho debuted in river of darknessreturns in a gripping postwwii murder mystery on a quiet afternoon in 1947, retired bank manager oswald gibson is shot in the head while fishing. He traces them back to their origins in the early experiments of gatling and maxim, and examines the first appearance of the machinegun. The gun and millions of other books are available for instant access. Bernheimers gun a knights of manann short story when the imperial engineer mikal bernheimer flees to the free city of marienburg, it falls to erkhart dubnitz and the knights of manann to protect the exile while the great and good wage diplomatic war over the matter. In 2009 he was part of a team that won the pulitzer prize for international reporting for coverage from afghanistan and pakistan. Chivers an excerpt from the book the gun, published in esquire, november 1 st, 2010. Library war internet movie firearms database guns in. All weapons used by the ldf are known to be usedtaken from jsdf stockpiles as donated by local governments to defend libraries against the media betterment act mba. Chivers an excerpt from the book the gun, published in esquire, november 1st, 2010. The sequel to the bully, this book is about bluford freshman tyray hobbs, the tormentor of darrell mercer. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of.
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When the building was being turned into a private residence, a group of communityoriented citizens set out. The gun is a nonfiction book written by journalist c. Students read about and discuss gun control and gun violence around the world. He traces them back to their origins in the early experiments of gatling and maxim, and examines the first appearance of the machine gun. Told with the empathy and understanding of an author who is himself an infantry veteran, the fighters presents the long arc of two wars. The reckoning public library of cincinnati and hamilton. View notes chivers 2010 from ant 261 at north carolina state university. The gun dismantles myths as it moves from the naive optimism of the industrial revolution through the treacherous milieu of the soviet union to the inside records of the taliban. Chivers s extraordinary new book tells an alternative history of the world as seen through these terrible weapons. The main sidearm of the ldf is the minebea p9, a licensed copy of the sigsauer p220 manufactured by minebea and shin chuo kogo kk. Mar 02, 2012 free downloadable classic shooting and firearms books. Scotland yards detective inspector billy styles and local detective vic chivers are baffled until a letter from. Oct 12, 2010 the gun dismantles myths as it moves from the naive optimism of the industrial revolution through the treacherous milieu of the soviet union to the inside records of the taliban. The gun is, mostly, a history of the ak47, which is probably the most famous gun in.
Chivers tells of the 19thcentury inventor in indianapolis who designs a civil war killing machine, insisting that moreefficient slaughter will save lives. Chivers is available in these libraries overdrive rakuten overdrive. Chiverss extraordinary new book tells an alternative history of the world as seen through these terrible weapons. Free downloadable classic shooting and firearms books. On a quiet afternoon in 1947, retired bank manager oswald gibson is shot in the head while fishing. Free downloadable classic shooting and firearms books daily.
The gun dismantles myths as it moves from the naive optimism of the industrial revolution through the. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the fighters. Before i go on, however, it should be pointed out that the gun by c. The tale traces tyrays troubled home life, his desire to rebuild his reputation, and his quest to get revenge on darrell, the only boy who ever stood up to him. It has transformed the way we fight wars, and its story is the chilling story of modern warfare. This is the beginning of a comprehensive description of a kind of gun library, an arm within the organization that seeks to help members get back on their feet after being released from prison. Drawing from years of research, interviews, and from declassified records revealed for the first time, he presents a richly human account of an evolution in the very experience of war. More than fifty national armies carry the automatic kalashnikov, as do an array of police, intelligence, and security agencies all over the world. Chivers about the ak47 rifle and its variants, and the impact they have had on the world. The gun is a wellorganized and fastmoving narrative that operates at several levels. The reckoning carnegie library of pittsburgh overdrive.
Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapidfire arms from the american civil war, through wwi, vietnam, to present day afghanistan. Well, there were certainly many factors, but an important new book forces us to consider this. The ala library has developed a libguide called gun violence and libraries, which includes links to resources on firearm safety in libraries, developing policies that accommodate local gun laws, resources pro and con on control, statistics about gun violence, and laws on this topic. Known as the roosevelt window, it was originally in the presbyterian church at the corner of 4th and whiteriver. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
In scotland, a respectable family doctor is killed in the same mannerand with the same gun. It is perhaps the most potent question to echo from the cold war. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. In the war on guns, economist and gun rights advocate john lott turns a skeptical eye to wellfunded antigun studies and stories that perpetuate false statistics to frighten. Technological innovations, machine guns, firearms, ak47 rifle, war, history. In scotland, a respectable family doctor is killed in the same mannerand with. Throughout, the gun animates unforgettable charactersinventors, salesmen, heroes, megalomaniacs, racists, dictators, gunrunners, terrorists, child soldiers, government careerists, and fools. Chivers tells a remarkable story of how this one, superbly reliable firearm became the most abundant ever produces alistair horne, author of the price of gloryand a savage war of peacethe ak47, or kalashnikov, is the most efficient firearm on earth.
Author of the fighters, an unvarnished account of the rankandfile experience of modern combat in afghanistan and iraq, called a a classic by the new york times, a memorial in pages by the washington post, and an honest reckoning by the wall street journal. Chivers traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapidfire arms from the american civil war, through world war i and vietnam, to presentday afghanistan, when kalashnikovs and their knockoffs number as many as 100 million, one for every seventy persons on earth. He contributes to the foreign and investigative desks and frequently posts on the at war blog, writing on war, tactics, human rights, politics, crime and the arms trade from afghanistan, iraq, russia, georgia, chechnya and elsewhere on a wide range of assignments. The narrative is a critical and intelligent interrogation of a story shrouded in soviet. The unabridged guide to every federal gun law on the books, in plain english. This volume, published in 1998 is the second work relating to firearms written by the belgian author gerard henrotin. Chivers s extraordinary new book tells an alternative history of the world as seen through these terrible weapons from their origins in early experiments, through the first appearance of the machine gun, to the perfection of the ak47 at the beginning of the cold war.
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