 1997 edition cover | |
| Author | Harry Turtledove |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Tom Stimpson |
| Genre | Science fiction Alternate history |
| Published | September 22, 1992 |
| Publisher | Ballantine |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback and paperback) |
| Pages | 561 |
| ISBN | 978-0-345-38468-3 |
| OCLC | 26096611 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3570.U76 G86 1992 |
The Guns of the South is a alternate history science fiction novel set during the American Civil War by Harry Turtledove.[1] It was released in the United States on September 22, 1992.
The story deals with a group of time traveling members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) from an imagined 21st-century South Africa, who supply Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia with AK-47s and other advanced technology, medicine and intelligence. Their intervention results in a Confederate victory in the war. Afterwards, however, the AWB members discover that their ideas for the Confederate States and Lee's are not one and the same as they believed and the general and the men of the South have a violent falling out with the white supremacists from the future.
- ^ "Uchronia: The Guns of the South". www.uchronia.net.