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1632

Assiti Shards #1 / 10 ✓
by Eric Flint
1632 (Assiti Shards #1) by Eric Flint
★ 8.00 / 1
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Freedom and Justice – American Style

1632 – And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religious war laying wast 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.

"American Democracy comes with a sword in her hand to 17th century Germany. A rich and complex alternate history with great characters and vivid action. A great read and an excellent book." – David Drake

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Release date: 2000

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Eric Flint

Eric Flint (born 1947) is an American alternate history and fantasy author, editor and e-publisher.

Assiti Shards

Assiti Shards was previously known as The Ring of Fire.

Assiti Shards consists of ten primary books, and includes twenty-three additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads — considered a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

1632 (Assiti Shards #1)
★ 8.00 / 1
1633 (Assiti Shards #2)
★ 9.00 / 2
1634: The Galileo Affair (Assiti Shards #3)
★ 6.50 / 2
1634: The Ram Rebellion (Assiti Shards #4)
★ 6.00 / 1
1635: The Cannon Law (Assiti Shards #5)
Unrated
1634: The Baltic War (Assiti Shards #6)
★ 7.00 / 3
1634: The Bavarian Crisis (Assiti Shards #7)
Unrated
1635: The Dreeson Incident (Assiti Shards #8)
Unrated
1635: The Eastern Front (Assiti Shards #9)
Unrated
1636: The Saxon Uprising (Assiti Shards #10)
Unrated
1635: The Tangled Web (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1636: The Kremlin Games (Assiti Shards)
★ 7.00 / 1
1636: Seas of Fortune (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies (Assiti Shards)
★ 8.00 / 1
1636: The Cardinal Virtues (Assiti Shards)
★ 8.00 / 1
1635: A Parcel of Rogues (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1636: The Chronicles of Dr. Gribbleflotz (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1636: The Devil's Opera (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1635: The Wars for the Rhine (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1636: The Ottoman Onslaught (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1636: Mission to the Mughals (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
The Alexander Inheritance (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1636: The Vatican Sanction (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1637: The Volga Rules (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1635: The Polish Maelstrom (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1636: The China Venture (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1636: Flight of the Nightingales (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1636: The Atlantic Encounter (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1637: No Peace Beyond the Line (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1636: Calabar's War (Assiti Shards)
⧗ 7.00 / 1
1637: The Peacock Throne (Assiti Shards)
Unrated
1637: Dr. Gribbleflotz and the Soul of Stoner (Assiti Shards)
⧗ 8.00 / 1
1637: The Coast of Chaos (Assiti Shards)
⧗ 8.00 / 1


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