Clear Color photographs of the AK47 assault rifle and its variations. The First volume covers Soviet/Russian AKM/AKMS, Polish AKM/AKMS post 1990, Polish AK47 grenade launcher variations, as well as full powered sniper rifles from Yugoslavia and Romania. 80 pages of color photographs, most never published.

the AK47 catalog is simply that; clear color photos of the AK47 and its variations. Most photos have never been published. Many versions have never been presented in the west. Volume 5 covers the E.German STG-940 series, Polish AK/AKS47, Chinese Type 56, Albanian, Romanian guns, .22 LR trainers from E.Germany and Bulgaria, as well as the vz 58 and StG 44.

This book includes Volumes 1 - 5, which are also sold separate. The AK47 catalog is simply that; Clear color photos of the AK47 and its variations. All original photos, most have never been published, many variants have never been published.

No single weapon has spread so much raw power to so many people in so little time—and had such a devastating effect—as the AK-47 assault rifle. This book examines the legacy of this world-changing weapon, from its creation as means of fighting the Nazis to its ubiquity today in every kind of conflict, from civil wars in Africa to gang wars in L.A.

The author, a New York Times reporter, traces the invention and mass distribution of the AK-47 assault rifle, and its effects on war. He traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through World War I and Vietnam, to present-day Afghanistan, where Kalashnikovs and their knockoffs number as many as 100 million, one for every seventy persons on earth. It is the weapon of state repression, as well as revolution, civil war, genocide, drug wars, and religious wars; and it is the arms of terrorists, guerrillas, boy soldiers, and thugs. From its inception to its use by more than fifty national armies around the world, to its role in modern-day Afghanistan, he discusses how the deadly weapon has helped alter world history.