The Guns of the South
One of the
books that I finished this week was The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove.
I haven’t read a lot of books by Harry Turtledove in the past but the ones I’ve
read have all been good. His books have all been a twist of history. An
alternate history where some part has been changed in some way so that history
was changed.
In this
book, time travelers came back to the Confederacy and brought General Robert E.
Lee a supply of AK-47s just before he was about to lose the civil war.
As a history
buff, I was interested to see what the events would be if the South never
rejoined the Union. I was interested to see the great study the author made of
the actual persons who were a part of the story and the choices they would probably
have made in the new circumstances they found themselves in. There was great
research done to use the real characters who were a part of our history but
also to create fictional characters and weave them into this time and place
without any apparent seams.
I greatly
enjoyed this book and will read more by this author the next chance I get.
But that’s
just my opinion.
-Jeff
