It is absolutely unique-without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read.Professor James M. McPhersonPultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOMJanuary 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 ClubA Main Selection of the Military Book Club | The Guns Of The South by Harry Turtledove, Mass Market Paperback | Indigo Chapters