The Guns of the South

The Guns of the South

1997 edition cover
Author	Harry Turtledove
Cover artist	Tom Stimpson
Country	United States
Genre	Alternate history novel
Published	September 22, 1992
Publisher	Ballantine
Media type	Print (hardback and paperback)
Pages	561
ISBN	978-0-345-38468-3
OCLC	26096611
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 20
LC Class	PS3570.U76 G86 1992

The Guns of the South is an alternate history 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.