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====== Guns of the South ====== | ====== Guns of the South ====== | ||
- | A work by [[Harry Turtledove]], | + | A work by [[Harry Turtledove]], |
- | GotS has been praised for, unlike many of Turtledove' | + | GotS has been praised for, unlike many of Turtledove' |
Although it is arguably the prototype for [[afrikaners# | Although it is arguably the prototype for [[afrikaners# | ||
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It's 1864 and things look grim for the Confederate States of America. General Robert E. Lee is drafting proposals for the spring campaign season, but is beginning to lose hope that he is doing anything more than delaying the inevitable. Whereupon he is visited by the mysterious Andries Rhoodie, who brings a new compact repeating rifle called the AK-47... | It's 1864 and things look grim for the Confederate States of America. General Robert E. Lee is drafting proposals for the spring campaign season, but is beginning to lose hope that he is doing anything more than delaying the inevitable. Whereupon he is visited by the mysterious Andries Rhoodie, who brings a new compact repeating rifle called the AK-47... | ||
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The AK-47 soon proves its worth - Confederate troops take up a chant of ' | The AK-47 soon proves its worth - Confederate troops take up a chant of ' | ||
- | The Confederates break through, take Washington | + | The Confederates break through, take Washington, D.C., and force the end of the war. Britain and France recognise the CSA and Lincoln is forced to concede, badly losing the 1864 election soon afterwards. However, at least he escapes assassination. The CSA becomes an independent nation, but plebiscites are held in disputed Kentucky and Missouri. Kentucky declares for the CSA and Missouri for the USA. |
The rest of the book covers the peacetime Confederacy and the lead-up to the Confederate presidential election of 1867. In the meantime, the USA blunders into a war with Britain and the Canadas, being successful on land (partly due to building reverse-engineered versions of the CSA's AK-47s) but having their coastal cities raided and bombarded by the Royal Navy. A general theme emerges of the Confederates, | The rest of the book covers the peacetime Confederacy and the lead-up to the Confederate presidential election of 1867. In the meantime, the USA blunders into a war with Britain and the Canadas, being successful on land (partly due to building reverse-engineered versions of the CSA's AK-47s) but having their coastal cities raided and bombarded by the Royal Navy. A general theme emerges of the Confederates, | ||
- | Eventually Lee breaks with the Rivington Men altogether after Nate Caudell finds a more accurate version of history in one of their books and shares it with his former general. Lee stands as a presidential candidate for the ' | + | Eventually Lee breaks with the Rivington Men altogether after Nate Caudell finds a more accurate version of history in one of their books and shares it with his former general. |
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+ | This event shocks Confederate public opinion and turns Forrest and his supporters against the Rivington Men as well. The Confederates attack Rivington but are held back by the Rivington Men's machine guns and other modern weapons. Caudell calls upon a former Union soldier he met during the war, who in OTL destroyed a Confederate position in 1865 by undermining it with explosives, and he does the same unto the Rivington Men, blasting a hole in their defences. Rivington falls, Rhoodie is killed, the time machine is destroyed, and the remaining Rivington Men and their technology are captured by the Confederacy. The book ends with President Lee wondering if he will survive beyond his OTL death date so that he might see the first free black children born. | ||
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- | This event shocks Confederate public opinion and turns Forrest and his supporters against the Rivington Men as well. The Confederates attack Rivington but are held back by the Rivington Men's machine guns and other modern weapons. Caudell calls upon a former Union soldier he met during the war, who in OTL destroyed a Confederate position in 1865 by undermining it with explosives, and he does the same unto the Rivington Men, blasting a whole in their defences. Rivington falls, Rhoodie is killed, the time machine is destroyed, and the remaining Rivington Men and their technology are captured by the Confederacy. The book ends with President Lee wondering if he will survive beyond his OTL death date so that he might see the first free black children born. | + | **[[Harry Turtledove]]** |
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