The Story
It is absolutely uniquewithout question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read.Professor James M. McPhersonPultizer Prizewinning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOMJanuary 1864General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and illequpped. 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 breathtakingand Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates.The name of the weapon is the AK47....Selected by the Science Fiction Book ClubA Main Selection of the Military Book ClubFrom the Paperback edition.
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It is absolutely uniquewithout question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read.Professor James M. McPhersonPultizer Prizewinning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOMJanuary 1864General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and illequpped. 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 breathtakingand Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates.The name of the weapon is the AK47....Selected by the Science Fiction Book ClubA Main Selection of the Military Book ClubFrom the Paperback edition.
