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"A Baen Books original"--T.p. verso.
A mysterious accident in time causes twenty-first-century American democracy to collide head-on with the Thirty Years War in seventeenth-century Germany as Mike Stearn and a group of armed miners take on a gang of strangely attired invaders who are threatening peaceful Grantville, West Virginia. Original. Freedom and Justice-American Style 1632. 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. 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.

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Germany won't know what hit 'em. submitted by crwilley on July 30, 2013, 6:03pm What a fascinating premise - a spherical chunk of modern West Virginia exchanged with an equal-sized spherical chunk of Germany, circa 1632, bringing most of a small mining town with it. The catch: there's a war on.

Needless to say, we win. There's a bit of an "America, Heck Yeah" tone to the book - but really, with a 350-year technological advantage and a fair-sized stockpile of ammunition, there wasn't too much chance of it going any other way.

The series this is the first book of generally does a really good job of exploring both the culture clash at an individual level and the larger social implications of having modern American technology and ideas introduced well ahead of schedule.

An Enjoyable Read submitted by slugwhisperer on July 24, 2018, 11:03pm Once past the first couple of chapters, I've been enjoying this book enthusiastically.