1632 (Ring Of Fire) - Hardcover

Flint, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671578499 ISBN 13: 9780671578497

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2000

Synopsis

When part of West Virginia is transported to 1632 East Germany during the Thirty Year's War, the new citizens repel marauding mercenaries, house German refugees, determine citizenship, and establish relationships and identities.

About this title

Review:

"...convincing historical detail ... entertaining ... it's hard not to cheer". -- Starlog

From the Back Cover:

FREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE

1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religious war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.

2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time.

THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED....

When the dust settles, Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened and finds the road into town is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell: a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter attacked by men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot. At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of the Thirty Years' War.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0671578499
• ISBN 13: 9780671578497
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 504