The Guns of the South
1997 · 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.... "It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read." -Professor James M. McPherson - Pultizer Prizewinning Battle Cry of Freedom