The Guns of the South
1997 edition cover
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| Author | Harry Turtledove |
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| Cover artist | Tom Stimpson |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Alternate history novel |
| Published | September 22, 1992 (Ballantine) |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 561 pp |
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| OCLC | 26096611 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3570.U76 G86 1992 |
The Guns of the South is an alternate history novel set during the American Civil War by Harry Turtledove. It was released in the United States on September 22, 1992.
The story deals with a group of time-travelling white supremacist members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging from an imagined 21st-century South Africa, who supply Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia with AK-47s and small amounts of other supplies (including nitroglycerine tablets for treating Lee's heart condition). Their intervention and technologies results in a Confederate victory in the war. Afterwards, however, Lee and the racists from the future have a violent falling out with each other.
In January 1864, the Confederacy is on the verge of losing the war against the United States. Men with strange accents and oddly mottled clothing approach Robert E. Lee at the headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia, demonstrating a rifle far superior to all other firearms of the time. The men call their organization "America Will Break" (or "AWB"). They offer to supply the Confederate army with these rifles, which they refer to as AK-47s. The weapons operate on chemical and engineering principles unknown to Confederate military engineers. The AWB establish a base in the little town of Rivington, North Carolina, making it into a combined fortress and arsenal. They also set up offices near the War Department in Richmond.
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