Guns of the South
- Authors
- Turtledove, Harry
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Tags
- steampunk , united states - history - civil war; 1861-1865 - fiction , historical , united states - history - civil war , war , general , united states , alternative histories (fiction) , 1861-1865 - fiction , science fiction , fiction , fantasy , war stories
- ISBN
- 9780345376756
- Date
- 1992-09-22T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.53 MB
- Lang
- en
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....
"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