books.google.com - At a secret arms-design contest in Stalin’s Soviet Union, army technicians submitted a stubby rifle with a curved magazine. Dubbed the AK-47, it was selected as the Eastern Bloc’s standard arm. Scoffed at in the Pentagon as crude and unimpressive, it was in fact a breakthrough—a compact automatic...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Gun.html?id=r3VwUEHoDikC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Gun
