The Guns of the South
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Harry Turtledove
"It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read."Professor James M. McPhersonPultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOMJanuary 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 ClubA Main Selection of the Military Book Club
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Author
Harry Turtledove
Pages
576
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Published Date
2011-04-20
ISBN
0307792358 9780307792358
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"A Turtledove must-read. What if time travellers returned to the time of America's civil war with AK47's and advanced technology for Lee's army? It was my first book by this author, and I had my doubts that I'd like it. I ended up finding it to be pretty good. #alternative_history "
Thomas Bray
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