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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Sep 1993
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $8.99
Pages: 576
"It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read."brProfessor James M. McPhersonbrPultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOMbrJanuary 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.brThen, 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. brThe name of the weapon is the AK-47....brSelected by the Science Fiction Book ClubbrA Main Selection of the Military Book Club