{"product_id":"the-guns-of-the-south-a-novel-of-the-civil-war-9780345384683","title":"The Guns of the South: A Novel of the Civil War","description":"\"It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read.\"\u003cbr\u003eProfessor James M. McPherson\u003cbr\u003ePultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM\u003cbr\u003eJanuary 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.\u003cbr\u003eThen, 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. \u003cbr\u003eThe name of the weapon is the AK-47....\u003cbr\u003eSelected by the Science Fiction Book Club\u003cbr\u003eA Main Selection of the Military Book Club\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarry Turtledove\u003c\/b\u003e is the award-winning author of the alternate-history works \u003ci\u003eThe Man with the Iron Heart, The Guns of the South, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHow Few Remain\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Hot War books (\u003ci\u003eBombs Away, Fallout, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Armistice\u003c\/i\u003e); the War That Came Early novels: \u003ci\u003eHitler's War, West and East, The Big Switch, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCoup d'Etat, Two Fronts, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Last Orders; \u003c\/i\u003ethe Worldwar saga: \u003ci\u003eIn the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Striking the Balance;\u003c\/i\u003e the Colonization books: \u003ci\u003eSecond Contact, Down to Earth, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Aftershocks; \u003c\/i\u003ethe Great War epics: \u003ci\u003eAmerican Front, Walk in Hell, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBreakthroughs;\u003c\/i\u003e the American Empire novels: \u003ci\u003eBlood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eVictorious Opposition;\u003c\/i\u003e and the Settling Accounts series: \u003ci\u003eReturn Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e In at the Death\u003c\/i\u003e. Turtledove is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters--Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca--and two granddaughters, Cordelia Turtledove Katayanagi and Phoebe Quinn Turtledove Katayanagi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Del Rey Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50635134992658,"sku":"9780345384683","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a660a395-7c1c-44f9-92ec-df581ed085ea.jpg?v=1732834724","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-guns-of-the-south-a-novel-of-the-civil-war-9780345384683","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}