The Guns of the South
Harry Turtledove
528 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0345413660
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Language: English
Publish: May 27, 1997
Alternate HistoryCivil WarFantasyFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionMilitary FictionScience FictionTime TravelWar
January 1864 –General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower.Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking–and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates.The name of the weapon is the AK-47…