The Guns of the South
a novel of the Civil War
by Harry Turtledove · 1992
Popularity 85
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 historiesFictionHistorical fictionHistoryUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865Fiction, historicalFiction, westernsFiction, historical, generalUnited States