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  • Published: 7 December 1993
  • ISBN: 9780345384683
  • Imprint: Random House Worlds
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $17.99

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

  • Published: 7 December 1993
  • ISBN: 9780345384683
  • Imprint: Random House Worlds
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 576
  • RRP: $17.99

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