“This is a book about a contemporary phenomenon that is crucially important, utterly terrifying, and largely ignored…[it] charts the spread of the titular weapon—especially in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia—and the ways in which the gun virtually guarantees the continued implosion of failed states and the intensification of terrorist violence.”— BookForum
AK47 : the story of a gun by Michael Hodges
“This is a book about a contemporary phenomenon that is crucially important, utterly terrifying, and largely ignored…[it] charts the spread of the titular weapon—especially in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia—and the ways in which the gun virtually guarantees the continued implosion of failed states and the intensification of terrorist violence.”— BookForum