The Guns of the South
by Harry Turtledove
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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....
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The Guns of the South
September 1, 1993, Del Rey
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The Guns of the South
December 1993, Random House New Zealand Ltd
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The guns of the South: a novel of the Civil War
1992, Ballantine Books
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