The Guns of the South
A Novel
"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
$11.99
September 1, 1993
Harry Turtledove is the award-winning author of the alternate-history works The Man with the Iron Heart, The Guns of the South, and How Few Remain (winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Hot War books: Bombs Away, Fallout, and Armistice; the War That Came Early novels: Hitler’s War, West and East, The Big Switch, Coup d’Etat, Two Fronts, and Last Orders; the Worldwar saga: In the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance, and Striking the Balance; the Colonization books: Second Contact, Down to Earth, and Aftershocks; the Great War epics: American Front, Walk in Hell, and Breakthroughs; the American Empire novels: Blood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold, and Victorious Opposition; and the Settling Accounts series: Return…
Alpha and Omega
Harry Turtledove
Armistice
Harry Turtledove
Fallout
Harry Turtledove
Bombs Away
Harry Turtledove
Joe Steele
Harry Turtledove
Last Orders (The War That Came Early, Book Six)
Harry Turtledove
Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart
Harry Turtledove
Two Fronts (The War That Came Early, Book Five)
Harry Turtledove
Supervolcano: All Fall Down
Harry Turtledove
Coup d'Etat (The War That Came Early, Book Four)
Harry Turtledove
Videssos Cycle: Volume Two
Harry Turtledove
Videssos Cycle: Volume One
Harry Turtledove
Supervolcano: Eruption
Harry Turtledove
The Big Switch (The War That Came Early, Book Three)
Harry Turtledove
And Another Thing
Eoin Colfer
Star Wars: Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss
Steven Barnes
Exodus: The Archimedes Engine
Peter F. Hamilton
Rogue Planet: Star Wars Legends
Greg Bear
Shadows of the Empire: Star Wars Legends
Steve Perry
Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road (Target Collection)
Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
Star Wars: Tempest Breaker (The High Republic)
Script by Cavan Scott
Ghostdrift
Suzanne Palmer
Star Wars: The Acolyte: Wayseeker
Justina Ireland
Lords of the Sith: Star Wars
Paul S. Kemp
Bloodline (Star Wars)
Claudia Gray
Master & Apprentice (Star Wars)
Claudia Gray
The Icarus Coda
Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: Temptation of the Force (The High Republic)
Tessa Gratton
Star Wars: The Mask of Fear (Reign of the Empire)
Alexander Freed