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Guns of the South, The


Classification

Series Number: 541
Genre: Alternative History
Series:
Condition: New
Read: ✓
Shelf: 17
Goodreads: Yes

General

Subtitle:
Author: Turtledove, Harry
Binding: Paperback
Cover Price: 7.99
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Publishing

Publisher: Ballantine Books
Copyright Year: 1992
Publication Year: 1992
ISBN#: 0-345-37675-7
LCCN#: 92053156
Pages: 516
Address: New York
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
LoC Classification: PS3570.U76 G86 1992
ISSN#:

Comments

January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equipped. 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 quantities to the Confederates.

The name of the weapon is the AK-47....