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Publishing House
Military Parade presents a book by Mikhail Kalashnikov
General sponsor of the publication - Rosvoorouzhenie
State Corporation
Mikhail T. Kalashnikov. From a Stranger’s
Doorstep to the Kremlin Gates. Published by Military Parade Ltd., Moscow,
478 pp.
The world-famous small-arms designer Mikhail
T. Kalashnikov in his memoirs gives a very frank account of his life, career,
meetings with people, trips in Russia and abroad, including facts which
have never been disclosed for various reasons.
The book is intended for both specialists
and the general reader.
You can order the book by sending an inquiry
to military@xproject.ru (the
price is $24.95)
Literary editing
Gary Nemchenko
Russian copy editing
Alexei Nedelin
English copy editing
Natalya Kostromskaya (director),
Alla Akopova
English style editing
Lynne Hulett
ISBN 5-7734-0006-5
© Text - M.T. Kalashnikov, 1997
© Rosvoorouzhenie, 1997
© Design - Military Parade Ltd., 1997
© Translation - Military Parade Ltd.,
1997
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1. Kalashnikov Cause
2. I Was Born with
a Silver Spoon in My Mouth
3. Soldiering
4. Half-Dead Soldier
5. Mikhtim
6. ‘Falkons, Fly
as High as Daring Hawks...’
7. Kovrov is Tula,
too
8. Birth of the AK-47
9. Fully-armed
10. ‘There Are More
Things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio’
11. Innermost Thoughts
12. After the ‘Shot
in the Dark’
13. A Kalashnikov
Hunt
14. My “Black Box
Data Recorder”
15. Grey-Haired General
Keeps on Working
16. Photo Album,
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