The Guns of the SouthHarry Turtledove

The Guns of the South

Name: The Guns of the South
ISBN: 9780345384683

Harry Turtledove · 1992

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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....

First sentence: Robert E. Lee paused to dip his pen once more in the inkwell.