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	The Guns of the South - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Guns of the South (1992, ISBN 0-345-37675-7) is a novel by writer Harry Turtledove.
		Unfortunately, the AWB have managed to secure control over a large portion of North Carolina due to other elements of their advanced technology which they have not shared with Lee's men (including walkie-talkies and flak jackets), and they manage to successfully repel all Confederate attempts to retake their territory.
		Colonel Henry Pleasants, a former Union officer who remained in the South after he had been captured during the War, that finally allows the Confederates to breach the AWB perimeter and defeat the combatants, capturing those who are unable to escape in their time machine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Guns_of_the_South (901 words)

	History
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		Characteristic of these guns are a thicker but shorter button, and the first and second reinforces are more parallel than those of guns cast in Sweden, which have a constant taper from the base-ring to the muzzle astragal.
		The first great reshuffle of guns occurred under French influence in the early 1780's with larger guns being positioned at key positions and older or smaller guns being relegated to the defence of the flanks, at secondary batteries or for signal use.
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		South Africa is named in the report, along with countries in the American continent and Europe, all battling to stem a mounting tide of handguns.
		Guns affect women's lives, even "when they are not directly in the firing line," as they assume the role of breadwinners and primary carers when male relatives are killed, injured or disabled by gun violence.
		The provision in the Domestic Violence Act in South Africa, giving police the power to remove a weapon from an alleged abuser at the victim's request, was rarely implemented, as most law enforcers did not view violence against women seriously, according to a study cited by the report.
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	U.S. Navy Battleships - USS South Dakota (BB 57)
		South Dakota's secondary batteries put out the lights; and she shifted all batteries to bear on the third ship, believed to be a cruiser, which soon gushed smoke.
		South Dakota was routed to Ulithi and, upon her arrival, was attached to TG 38.3; one of four task groups of formed Task Force 38, the Fast Carrier Task Force.
		South Dakota operated with the fast carriers in their strikes against the Tokyo area on 17 February 1945 and against Iwo Jima on the 19th and 20th in support of amphibious landings there.
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	The Times and Democrat - Putting a halt to trafficking in guns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Guns from the South, where weapons are more easily purchased than in some other regions, find their way onto the streets of cities from New York to the West Coast.
		Guns from Orangeburg are among those on the move.
		Fourteen of the 46 guns were recovered by police in the Brooklyn area after being used in a crime.
	www.timesanddemocrat.com /articles/2004/06/19/opinion/opinion1.txt (727 words)

	U.S. Guns Go South Of Border (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Guns are the tool of a war between crime syndicates that claimed between 1,400 and 2,500 lives in 2005, according to newspaper and magazine tallies.
		Mexico's biggest criminals are in an arms race, with a machine gun loaded with armor-piercing ammunition the new weapon for the cartels fighting for control of the lucrative narcotics trade, U.S. and Mexican officials say.
		The city is a tragic symbol of gun violence sweeping the country.
	www.tbo.com /news/nationworld/MGB83TG98IE.html (416 words)

	South Africans switch from guns to crossbows - World - www.smh.com.au
		New gun controls came into force last year under South Africa's Firearms Control Act, but some weapons-shop owners say high crime rates are pushing law-abiding citizens to look for alternative means of defending themselves.
		Estimates of the number of illegal firearms in South Africa vary between 1 and 4 million, he said, but the real problem was from some 30,000-40,000 hardcore criminals using a small number of illegal guns.
		South Africa began a firearms amnesty on January 1 that to date has netted about 13,000 weapons, but critics say most of the weapons handed in are old and would never have been used for crime.
	www.smh.com.au /news/World/South-Africans-switch-from-guns-to-crossbows/2005/03/20/1111253879110.html (524 words)

	NEW SCHUMER STUDY: GUNS FROM THE SOUTH MORE THAN DOUBLED IN NY CRIMES SINCE 1999
		The new Schumer study also examined larger trends in gun trafficking, including the fact that just four states: Virginia, California, Georgia and Florida were the source of almost one in four guns used in out-of-state crimes committed nationwide in 2001.
		In 1999, 30,543 of 93,948 traced crime guns were used outside the state from which they were originally sold – which was slightly less than one third.
		The guns often come from states that do not believe in restricting guns beyond what is prescribed by federal law.
	schumer.senate.gov /SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/PR01760.html (981 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Guns of the South at Epinions.com
		Guns of the South is the first in this series; later books cover later periods of time.
		Their idea is to arm the South with these, thus creating a history in which the Confederacy will be there as a bastion for white pride in years to come.
		Guns of the South is an excellent, well-written book.
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	Striderweb Reviews: The Guns of the South (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		An historical novel masquerading as science fiction, The Guns of the South examines the issues and personalities surrounding the American Civil War through the perspective of a Confederate States of America that successfully wins its bid for independence.
		There is a definite strain of fantasy in the novel, as the south is able to turn back the overwhelming strength of the Northern states only through the assistance of white supremacists who have traveled back in time from the 21st century to ensure that American slavery survives.
		Despite this element, which (obviously) heavily influences the plot, the story is a close examination of the actual historical personalities, ranging from Abe Lincoln and the Confederate president Jefferson Davis, to soldiers pulled from historical records.
	www.striderweb.com /reviews/breviews/gunsofthesouth.htm (491 words)

	AK47's in the Civil War? - TheFiringLine Forums
		"The Guns of the South" by Harry Turtledove 1992.
		They supply the south with the guns and ammo and teach them to use the guns.
		And as far as thinking that the guns really wouldn't have made that much of a difference against the well supplied north, do not forget that the underdog south won the first part of the war by trouncing the Union army at Bull Run, Fredricksburg, and Chancelorsville.
	www.thefiringline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=32475 (1359 words)

	Below The Beltway: The Guns Of The South (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		Robert E. Lee, only months from the defeat at Gettysburg, ponders yet another spring and summer of confrontation with the North when he is approached by a man offering him an unparallelled advantage in the war --- weaponry from the 20th Century in the form of the AK-47.
		As it turns out, this man is the leader of a group of South African whites who have traveled back in time to 1864 in an effort to change the course of history and create in the Confederate States of America a power center for the white race into the 21st Century.
		As Lee begins his path toward the Presidency of the Confederacy, he begins to question whether slavery should continue and comes to a conclusion that puts him at odds with the foreign benefactors who gave the South the means to achieve its independence.
	belowbeltway.blogspot.com /2005/08/guns-of-south.html (579 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Guns of the South: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		However, "The Guns of the South" disposes of both the Union army and the Civil War rather quickly, because this alternative history is ultimately about what type of nation the Confederacy would have become.
		The strength of this novel does not rest on physics but on characterization and even though the idea that Lee's personal charisma would have been sufficient to get the Confederacy to abandon slavery, it is simply one of those idealized beliefs I would like to hold on to.
		"Guns of the South" is a good read, and whether you come to it as a Civil War buff or a fan of alternative histories, I think either way you will enjoy the novel.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0345384687 (1055 words)

	Guardian \| Alliance ready to turn guns against the south
		His optimism was not shared yesterday by western diplomats and defence officials who are frustrated by the failure to encourage anti-Taliban resistance in the south and the lack of intelligence about the whereabouts of the Taliban leadership, Osama Bin Laden, and his chief al-Qaida followers.
		American military commanders are wrestling with plans to deploy larger numbers of airborne troops to attack Taliban positions, a task which in the present state of uncertainty and lack of good intelligence would be an extremely risky tactic.
		This would be even more the case if the Taliban chooses to concentrate its forces in the south, including Kandahar.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4297844-108920,00.html (854 words)

	Guns of the South Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		It's 1864, and the South is obviously losing when a few oddly-costumed men with unrecognizable accents show up and offer to arm the Rebels with...AK-47s.
		There's the "time engine," of course, and we see a later-generation PC but nobody uses it "onstage." Other than that, all of the (mostly military) hardware imported from the future is available today and has been for decades.
		The Guns of the South is a long (551 pages) book and a slow one because much of the dialog has a courtly period flavor.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /roygoodman/guns.html (415 words)

	The Guns of the South - Harry Turtledove - Used Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		With these "futuristic" weapons, the South wins the war and promptly seizes control of the U.S. government, only the changes that they bring about are not what anyone is expecting.
		In The Guns of the South, Turtledove takes one of the most dramatic, bloody, and tumultuous episodes in our life as a nation, the Civil War, and vividly imagines what might have been had the rebels prevailed.
		A highly original and extraordinary vision of history as it both was and could have been, The Guns of the South will take its place alongside the most exciting historical fiction ever written about the War Between the States.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/32883860.html (606 words)

	The Guns of the South - DC's Page :: Reviews ::
		One of the major problems in time travel or alternate history SF is the presence of characters from a time or a world wholly different from our own who nevertheless have all the attitudes and opinions one might expect of, for example, a late 20th Century Californian.
		The mechanism for the South winning is rather different in The Guns of the South: a group of time travellers appear and presents to General Lee the opportunity to arm his troops with the AK-47, vastly superior weapons to anything else available.
		Helicon 2 is going to be held in St. Helier over the Easter weekend, 29th March – 1st April.
	www.dcjt.demon.co.uk /dc/reviews/guns.html (407 words)

	Ex parte Merryman and Abraham Lincoln’s Suspension of Habeas Corpus by Andrew Young
		The Plausibility of Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South
		In his novel The Guns of the South, Harry Turtledove presents an alternative history of the American Civil War.
		The South, with the aid of a group of South Africans who travel back in time from 2014, utilizes AK-47s to win the war.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig5/young-andrew8.html (1396 words)

	Guns of the South/Harry Turtledove - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		I have read a series of books lately by Harry Turtledove about the South winning the War of Northern Aggression with the help of AWB going back in time with AK-47's.
		He is obviously sympathetic to the native Southrons in GUNS OF THE SOUTH.
		With the South leaning towards Facism and the North leaning towards Communism.
	www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=94417 (686 words)

	Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com » Book Review: The Guns of the South
		The second act was the reconstruction of the south, after the war’s end in 1864.
		Lee is behind a movement to emancipate the slaves in the south (as the north recently did).
		And the Rivington Men show their true colors, they are not benefactors from the future, they are racists from South Africa, who have thier own agenda, and now Lee is opposed to them.
	www.jeremygilby.com /?p=337 (815 words)

	Geeks With Guns - Chef from South Park returns... Changed!
		The writers really had a message to put out regarding Issac Hayes leaving South Park all because they started picking on Scientology.
		Chef not only was given one last chance to return to South Park with the Chillin' (which he refused, singing with pieced together recordings of Mr.
		"South Park's" impish grade-schoolers try to save him, but he is burned, stabbed and mauled by a mountain lion and bear.
	www.geekswithguns.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=621 (400 words)

	Guns of the South: A Novel of the Civil War - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Guns of the South: A Novel of the Civil War
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		The Souths General Robert E.Lee is approached by a man who offers him a remarkable weapon in quantities that can not only resupply his Army of Northern Virginia but also provide each man with...
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	ToxicUniverse.com - Turtledove, Harry - 1992 - Guns of the South, The Books Review
		It is the question that lies at the heart of Harry Turtledove's The Guns of the South, a novel that gives the Confederate States of America the benefit of the doubt our history never allowed it.
		The madmen from the future see in the South an exploitable cradle of white supremacy, founded on the "peculiar institution" of slavery—an institution, they are certain, that the Confederacy's birth was meant to enshrine forever.
		The narrative of The Guns of the South is very straightforward; Turtledove is a history professor and approaches his subject with a historian's detachment: He is very even-handed in presenting the points of view of both North and South.
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10003342 (1040 words)

	New World Order: What's it about?
		Here the South wins the Civil War (again) because time travelling South African nazis from the future go back and supply Robert E. Lee's army with Kalashnikovs.
		Guns of the South is an excellent novel.
		The original tensions that led to the war in the first place are still there, and the Holekhor have their own agenda.
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	Democratic Underground Forums - Police offer free storage of guns.
		SOUTH LYON -- South Lyon's police chief says he's willing to store -- for free and with few questions asked -- any guns his city's residents don't want to keep at home.
		So, in a voluntary program that started Monday, any South Lyon resident may take guns to the department and safely keep firearms out of the reach of children to prevent accidental gun deaths or injuries.
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	Harry Turtledove: Departures
		Even the excerpt from The Guns of the South which appears at the end announces that the book will be coming to paperback in October 1993 (although I am told this will be changed in future printings).
		The first short story Harry Turtledove published, back in Universe 10 in 1980, was a satirical piece called "Report of the Special Committee on the Quality of Life." This story was written as a bureaucratic study and explained why Christopher Columbus's proposed journey to find a Western passage to China was impracticable.
		This tie began with The Guns of the South and has continued through How Few Remain and the Nebula nominated "Must and Shall." "The Last Reunion" grew from the same research which produced The Guns of the South and is an examination of a reunion of Civil War vets and the memories it instilled.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/departures.html (1390 words)

	Geeks With Guns - Chef leaving South Park
		Isaac Hayes has quit South Park, stating that he is unhappy with jokes about religion in episodes of the hit cartoon.
		Hayes, who has provided the voice of Chef since the show first started, has asked to be let out of his South Park contract and has criticised the show’s producers for including jokes about religion in recent episodes.
		Although Hayes has not pointed to one particular episode, it would seem that the jokes about Scientology – the legendary soul star’s religion – are what caused him to quit, as stated by South Park’s co-creator Matt Stone.
	www.geekswithguns.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=611 (396 words)

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