"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
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....
Selected by the Science Fiction Book Club
A Main Selection of the Military Book Club
- ISBN10 0345384687
- ISBN13 9780345384683
- Publish Date 1 September 1993 (first published 22 September 1992)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 23 November 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Del Rey Books
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 576
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780345384683