After three weeks I finally finished it! The Guns of the South is an enjoyable book, which thoroughly entertained me throughout those three weeks. It successfully combines science-fiction with history, what with the whole time travelling thing and all. The novel was not really about just the South winning the Civil War, but more about what the first few years after the war would have been like had the South indeed won the Civil War. The controversy brought about by Robert E. Lee's plans to manumit the slaves was particularly good, as was the final battle in Rivington, where Rhoodie's men's means of travel to the nineteenth century is discovered. The inclusion of the 47th North… Mehr dazu