The dust jacket has a portrait of General Lee holding an AK-47... and that's about all I need to say about it.
Act One was fun, as it was the Confederacy given the boon of advanced infantry weapons from the future, via time travelling assholes (not assholes because they helped the south... assholes because of their intentions and the strings attached to the deal).
Act Two has been a bunch of political maneuvering/intrigue in the aftermath of the war. I typically don't like that sort of story. It made Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars" trilogy painful for me to read, as well as the Dune books, after the first.
It's still a fun alternate-reality-read, and I have hopes that Act Three will get back into the JOHNNY-REB-KICKING-ASS-WITH-AN-AK-action.
I feel the author must have done a fair bit of study of the General Lee, because the way he speaks seems very similar to the language of the Lee correspondence that I've read.
I bought the hardcover, used, very cheap.
It's summer. Put down the hard non-fiction and chill out a little.
Book - "The Guns of the South" by Harry Turtledove
I knew a dude in high school that read this thing & numerous other books by him. Historical fiction is his niche, much like psycho conspiracy nuts are Dan Brown's.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."