The Guns of the South

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 Prize, winning ,Battle Cry of Freedom