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Ultimate Spy Book
by H. Keith Melton

Ultimate Spy Book
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Author: H. Keith Melton
Foreword: William Colby
Foreword: Oleg Kalugin
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-04-01
ISBN: 0789404435
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley

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Book Review: An interesting book.
Summary: 4 Stars

This is really more a correction than a review. "Bagman" states in his review that the Nagant revolver shown in the book could not be silenced because of the cylinder gap typical of most revolvers, which would let noisy expanding gases escape. With any other revolver, this would hold true, but the Nagant revolver's unique feature is its gas-seal design. All revolvers, upon firing, leak gas from between the chamber mouth and the forcing cone. The Nagant, however, was gas-tight, because of a unique mechanical arrangement where the cylinder is cammed forward upon cocking -- tucking the coned breach end of the barrel into the mouth of the aligned chamber and enclosing the mouth of the cartridge casing. The expanding super-hot gases generated by the discharge of the round would cause the case mouth to expand against the inside of the forcing cone, forming a gas-tight seal, conserving the expanding gases propelling the bullet, improving muzzle velocity, and allowing use of a muzzle-mounted noise suppressor or "silencer."

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