The AK47 assault rifle and its many variants is the most widely distributed and best-known military shoulder weapon of the post-World War II era. You can see Kalashnikov assault rigles on the evening television news from Beirut, Iran, El Salvador and the Lebanon. An estimated 30 to 50 million Kalashnikov-type rifles and light machine guns have been manufactured since the design was introduced in 1947. At least a dozen countries either have manufactured or are manufacturing versions of this weapon. Over 55 nations and countless guerrilla and terrorist organizations use these guns daily. This almost universal presence of the AK47 prompted the author's investigation into the origins of the Kalashnikov rifles and into the career of the man who created the weapon. Until now, there has been verylittle information published in English about this man, the leading contem porary design of small arms in the USSR. For more than a decade, military historian Edward Clinton Ezell has been engaged in breaking through the secrecy surrounding Kalashnikov. Ezell examined actual Imperial Russian and Soviet weapons and includes many previously unpublished photographs of these weapons.
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