The Guns of the South
a novel of the Civil War
About this book
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....
Subjects
- alternative histories
- fiction
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, westerns
- historical fiction
- history
- united states
- united states civil war, 1861-1865