The guns of the South : a novel of the Civil War

by Harry Turtledove

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Virginia, USA

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Andries Rhoodie

Robert E. Lee (General)

Abraham Lincoln (President)

Jefferson Davis

Nathan Bedford Forrest (General)

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John Esten Cooke Award (Southern Fiction | 1993)

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345384687, Mass Market Paperback)

"It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read."
Professor James M. McPherson
Pultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM
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....
Selected by the Science Fiction Book Club
A Main Selection of the Military Book Club

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