The Guns of the South

by Harry Turtledove

First published 1992 · 561 pages

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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....

  • Alternative histories
  • Fiction
  • Historical fiction
  • History
  • United States Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Fiction, historical
  • Fiction, westerns
  • Fiction, historical, general

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