Lemat Carbine

[snidervolley]

only two hundred were made during the conflict but it was still there

 

[JOHN42768]

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[KianGaf]

I was doing a bit of research on the LeMat and this was on wikipedia. That sounds like one strange book.

" In Harry Turtledove's 1992 novel The Guns of the South, Confederate General JEB Stuart is so impressed with the rifles brought back from 2014 by the men of AWB that he sells his LeMat revolver and replaces it with an AK-47."

 

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[gjpratt]

I was doing a bit of research on the LeMat and this was on wikipedia. That sounds like one strange book.

" In Harry Turtledove's 1992 novel The Guns of the South, Confederate General JEB Stuart is so impressed with the rifles brought back from 2014 by the men of AWB that he sells his LeMat revolver and replaces it with an AK-47."

This is a very interesting book. Alternate history and science fiction. Basically, a time warp opens and a present day US Marine attack force -- including helos - is transported to the CW era and lands in the confederacy. Lee uses the technology gift to win a swift victory. The genius (and fun) is the development of the CSA as a country together with the development of the central actors who survived. The time warp occurred early in the War.Turtledove is a history professor so his plot and character development are completely plausible.

Turtledove next wrote a magnum opus series that was a straight alternate history of the South winning the civil war. The first volume is How Few Remain and it can be read as a stand alone book.. The timeline point of departure here is that Lee's lost order was not found, Lee destroys McClellan in the Antietam campaign and Lincoln is forced to sue for peace. The North is simmering over the loss and in the 1870s commences another war. It is fought on the Ohio River line and is largely a trench stalemate. The next volume picks up around WW2 with all kinds of ironic role reversals. USA is aligned with the Axis because of the South's traditional strong alliance with England. WW1 is fought in the US in the Appalachians/Blue Ridge. Axis powers win. The War produces a young corporal of artillery for the South who refuses to accept the defeat and in the 1920s becomes an accomplished but fire-breathing radio commentator who blames the loss on untrustworthy, treasonous and inferior African Americans and parlays his agitation into a dictatorial President of the CSA who creates roundup camps and foments WW2. You get the picture. It is very well done.

Turtledove is a prolific scifi/alternate history/historical novel author. I have enjoyed every book of his I have read -- which may be all of them!

 

[KianGaf]

This is a very interesting book. Alternate history and science fiction. Basically, a time warp opens and a present day US Marine attack force -- including helos - is transported to the CW era and lands in the confederacy. Lee uses the technology gift to win a swift victory. The genius (and fun) is the development of the CSA as a country together with the development of the central actors who survived. The time warp occurred early in the War.Turtledove is a history professor so his plot and character development are completely plausible.

Turtledove next wrote a magnum opus series that was a straight alternate history of the South winning the civil war. The first volume is How Few Remain and it can be read as a stand alone book.. The timeline point of departure here is that Lee's lost order was not found, Lee destroys McClellan in the Antietam campaign and Lincoln is forced to sue for peace. The North is simmering over the loss and in the 1870s commences another war. It is fought on the Ohio River line and is largely a trench stalemate. The next volume picks up around WW2 with all kinds of ironic role reversals. USA is aligned with the Axis because of the South's traditional strong alliance with England. WW1 is fought in the US in the Appalachians/Blue Ridge. Axis powers win. The War produces a young corporal of artillery for the South who refuses to accept the defeat and in the 1920s becomes an accomplished but fire-breathing radio commentator who blames the loss on untrustworthy, treasonous and inferior African Americans and parlays his agitation into a dictatorial President of the CSA who creates roundup camps and foments WW2. You get the picture. It is very well done.

Turtledove is a prolific scifi/alternate history/historical novel author. I have enjoyed every book of his I have read -- which may be all of them!

I started it today , it seems interesting an interesting tale. It's my first time reading anything in the genre.

 

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I liked the lemat pistol in the movie 12 monkeys with Bruce Willis
And the western :

 

[Lanyard Puller]

@snidervolley[/USER] "only two hundred were made during the conflict but it was still there"

What are your sources for the "200" Le Mat carbines production and the photo and Murdaugh/London carbine photo ??

Rather than alternative history and movies I'd suggest the books: Le Mat, The Man, The Gun. 1996, by Frogett and Serpette. It contains definitive production records, etc. Also Confederate Carbines & Musketoons, 2002, Murphy, more recent and well footnoted.

 

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