&quot;It is absolutely unique--without question the most fascinating Civil War novel I have ever read.&quot;<br>Professor James M. McPherson<br>Pultizer Prize-winning BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM<br>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.<br>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. <br>The name of the weapon is the AK-47....<br>Selected by the Science Fiction Book Club<br>A Main Selection of the Military Book Club