The guns of the south.

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 ClubFrom the Paperback edition.