{"product_id":"1632-paperback","title":"1632 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Flint\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTHEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED....\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Comprehensive Teacher's Guide available.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFREEDOM AND JUSTICE -- AMERICAN STYLE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1632 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2000 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Flint \u003c\/b\u003eis a modern master of alternate history fiction with 3 million books in print. He's the author\/creator of the multiple \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling Ring of Fire series, starting with first novel \u003ci\u003e1632\u003c\/i\u003e. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the Belisarius alternate Roman history series, and with David Weber he has collaborated on \u003ci\u003e1633\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003e1634: The Baltic War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eas well as four novels in Weber's Honorverse series.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eFlint was for many years a labor union activist. He lives near Chicago, Illinois.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 608\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 6.6 x 4.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2007)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1632\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5.4\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 27\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42175824330887,"sku":"9780671319724","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/a86a0241c7fff8fae021521f022107b0.webp?v=1733384521","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/1632-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}