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C. J. Chivers

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Crèdit de la imatge: Author C. J. Chivers at the 2018 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, United States. By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74250504

Obres de C. J. Chivers

The Gun (2010) 501 exemplars
The Fighters (2018) 164 exemplars

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The Best American Magazine Writing 2007 (2007) — Col·laborador — 59 exemplars
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 2011 (2010) — Author "Everyman's Gun" — 6 exemplars

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Chivers gives us direct personal accounts of the men and women who fight our wars. The stories are riveting first-hand accounts of battle and the horrors that follow and the aftermath of what happens to the fighters afterward. Chivers raises the bigger question that is surprisingly absent from public debate--why are we still in Afghanistan and Iraq after nearly 20 years? Definitely, recommend this book.
 
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kropferama | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Jan 1, 2023 |
Disappointing considering how much I like Chivers' reporting in the Ny Times and his blog. Uneven style and recurring redundencies. Could have been much shorter. Tying the central theme to the AK47 is a stretch and works better as a general history of the automatic rifle. The sections on the development and commercialization of the Gatling, Maxim and M-16 are great, though.
 
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tmdblya | Hi ha 17 ressenyes més | Dec 29, 2020 |
The best researched book about AK47 I have ever read, including a very comprehensive context for its development with a quite lengthy history of guns in general and the interaction between the military and people making guns. It also covers the M16 debacle, even though it's not the main subject of the book).
 
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Paul_S | Hi ha 17 ressenyes més | Dec 23, 2020 |
The AK47 was first manufactured way back in the early 1950's and some of these very early models are still in use. It is a gun that has been used by armies, revolutionaries, hoodlums and criminals. It's simple construction gives it a robustness and longevity that mean that these weapons will be around for a long time to come.

In the biography of the gun, and the man Kalashnikov who invented it, Chivers takes us through the murky world of the arms industry, and Soviet cold war secrets. Form how the initial concept was conceived and developed to the modern iterations of the weapon. Along the way he writes about the times these guns have been seen by the public, normally some terrorist atrocity, and the history of arms that lead to the lightweight sub machine gun.

The history and anecdotes about this are fairly interesting, but in there is 200 pages of history about the earlier guns such as the Gatling, and a lot of the failure of the M-16 in battle. Interesting in its own way, and necessary to set the context, but it is half the book.
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PDCRead | Hi ha 17 ressenyes més | Apr 6, 2020 |

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