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 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.

The AK47 catalog is simply that; Clear color photos of the AK47 and it's variations. No filler text, or the same regurgitated dimensional information. Full color, all original photography, with most images never published. Many variants have never been published. This book contains volume 11, 12, and 13 in one large bound book. It also contains the index for the entire series. All of these are also sold as separate books. Volume 11 - 13 contains- Albanian Automatiku Model 56 / ASH-78, Chinese Type 56C and Type 88-1, Polish Beryl, 1986 Soviet RPK-74s, Bulgarian AR series from the 1990s, Polish pm K rifle, pm KS cutaways and trainers, Polish kbk AKM/S, wz.88 Tantal, Romanian Early 90s export rifles, Chinese Type 56 stamped, Iraqi Tabuk series, North Korean Type 58 and Type 68 fixed stock, Israeli Galil, South African R4 / R5 / R6 / CR-21, Romanian 5.45mm weapons, Bulgarian 5.45mm weapons, AK-74 and AKS-74 comparison.

The AK47 catalog is simply that; Clear color photos of the AK47 and its variations. No filler text where I tell you how long the barrel is, that the stock is plastic and folds, or what you can observe from the photographs. Each volume is printed in 100% color, with all original photography. Most photographs have never been published. Many of the items have never appeared in any publication.Volume 11 covers a Albania, some Chinese rariates like the Type 56C and 88-1, the Polish Beryl, Soviet RPK74s from 1986, as well as some Bulgarian pieces from the 1990s.

2nd Edition of Vickers Guide: AR-15 (Volume 1)

It s back...but this time with more pages, more information and more photographs. The most definitive study on Kalashnikov pattern rifles to date boasts over 1,100 printed pages covering the AK rifle, as well as its variants manufactured in over 19 countries."