About this title: FREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE
1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous 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 ...
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Description: Very Good. 0671319728 Mass Market Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Baen
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780671319724ISBN:0671319728
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Baen Publishing
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781416532811ISBN:1416532811
Description: Grade: C. Catalog: Science Fiction General Synopsis: Editions vary. 597 pages. FREEDOM AND JUSTICE-AMERICAN STYLE...1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religi... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Baen
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780671319724ISBN:0671319728
Description: Good. Standard used condition. May have light reading or storage wear. All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Baen Books, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780671319724ISBN:0671319728
Description: Good. No Jacket as Issued. Wear and creasing to the covers. Reading creases to the spine. Otherwise a clean copy. Cover art by Larry Elmore. read more
Edition: 7th Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Baen Books, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780671319724ISBN:0671319728
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers slightly creased; moderate edge wear/ corners and spine hinge creased/ several page tips creased. read more
Edition: 6th Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Baen Books, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781416532811ISBN:1416532811
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers creased; moderate edge wear/ corners and spine hinge creased and slightly frayed; spine creased/ several pages and page tips creased/ writing inside rear cover. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Baen Books
Date Published: 2006-06-30
ISBN-13:9781416532811ISBN:1416532811
Description: Very Good. PAPERBACK. Very Good + Condition. Binding tight, pages clean. Light edge-wear. Faint tan at periphery of inner covers. Lovely glossy copy! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Baen Books, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780671319724ISBN:0671319728
Description: Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. Light edgewear to the covers. Otherwise a clean, tight copy with an uncreasesd spine. Cover art by Larry Elmore. read more
"1632 demonstrates what can be done with "alternate history" linked with fantasy in the hands of a competent story teller with a strong background in, and love of, history. Sometimes telling a good story well (i.e. the success of authors like Louis L'Amour)is what it is all about in popular culture. 1632 succeeds quite well, and leaves one searching for more by this author.
By the way, I read this on a Sony PRS 505 ereader."
"The premise of this book looked like fun but it turned out to be very interesting. A small American town (lower station and all) set down in the middle of the 30 years war...where of course history branches off and things start to get interesting.
It's worth reading this one. The series from here exploded and I haven't read all of it but this first one is a good read."
"What a very fun book to read! And what a great way to get someone interested in a period of history. Sure, there's the jingoistic "Americuh, **** yeah!" aspect to it, but it's often played for laughs.
The premise of the book is that about a 6 mile radius sphere of a modern day West Virginian small mining town is suddenly scooped out due to an advanced species' temporal negligance and dropped down in the middle of Germany in 1631, about 10 years into the ferociously vicious and bloody Thirty Years War.
They were lucky enough to have brought along their power plant and enough doctors and folks who had multiple guns and other knowhow to make them an increasingly important economic and social force of the time.
There are lots of hilarious parts, like the Scots' reactions to the "spirited girls" - American style cheerleaders in their cheerleader outfits. And there are also parts that are true to the times, filth, starvation, illness, rape and a deep lack of freedom for the majority of the population.
This kept me up long past my bedtime and now I am going to hunt down at least the next sequel to see if it's still as interesting, educational and entertaining as the first."
"This book represents the best kind of alternate history. The concept of injecting a modern small town into the middle of the Seven Years War and seeing what happens, is nothing short of brilliant. The characterization is very good, the small town characters are believable and what they do when confronted with suddenly being in the distant past is also. The historic figures which are portrayed seem to me, a little two dimensional. Which makes the story a little hard considering most people aren't all that familiar with such historical characters as King Gustav for example."
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