The Ultimate Y2K Glitch....
1632 In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protestant armies marched and countermarched across the northern plains, laying waste the cities and slaughtering everywhere. In many rural areas population plummeted toward zero. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy.
2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia. The mines are working, the buck are plentiful (it's deer season) and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire membership of the 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 small group of armed miners to find out what's going on. Out past the edge of town Grantville's asphalt road 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 Iying screaming in muck at the center of a ring of attentive 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.
Download the comprehensive Teacher’s Guide here.
-
Product ReviewA rousing start to a great series 1633 is a better book but it's because of the foundations established in 1632
Posted on
-
Product ReviewThis was a lot better story than it seemed it would be from the description.
Posted on
-
Product Review
Posted on
-
Product ReviewA very clever story. An enjoyable read. Kept me turning the pages!
Posted on
-
Product Review
Posted on
-
Product Review
Posted on
-
Product Review
Posted on
-
Product ReviewLoved it and now I will HAVE to read the whole series. It's a stroke of brilliance to give us a couple of free books to hook us so that we will then be eager to buy the rest of the series at very reasonable prices.
Posted on
-
Product Review
Posted on
-
Product Review
Posted on