Paths of Fire: The Gun and the World It Made

by Andrew Nahum

Book Overview

Type "Mikhail Kalashnikov" into Google and the biography of the inventor will come back to you almost at the speed of light. Squeeze the trigger of a Kalashnikov and a bullet is kicked up the barrel by an archaic chemical explosion that would have been quite familiar to Oliver Cromwell or General Custer. The gun--antique, yet contemporary--still dominates the world. Geopolitical events and even consumer culture have been molded by the often-unseen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789143977
• ISBN13: 9781789143973
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 8.7"