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 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.
Comprehensive Teacher's Guide available.
Author: Eric Flint
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Baen
Published: 02/01/2001
Series: Ring of Fire
Pages: 608
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 6.60h x 4.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780671319724
Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.4
Point Value: 27
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 74156 / 1632
Award: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award Nominee - Grades 9-12
About the AuthorEric Flint was the creator of the
New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series, the best-selling alternate history series of all time. Beginning with
1632, Flint--along with dozens of cowriters--chronicled what happened when the 20th-century town of Grantville, West Virginia, was transported through time and space to 17th-century Europe. In addition, Flint was the author, with
New York Times best seller David Weber, of the Crown of Slaves Saga, as well as the Belisaurius series, with best-selling author David Drake. Flint was the editor of
Jim Baen's Universe, as well as numerous short story anthologies. Before becoming a writer, Flint worked as a trade union organizer, longshoreman, truck driver, auto worker, steel worker, oil worker, meatpacker, glassblower, and machinist. Eric Flint passed away in 2022.