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Loading... 1634: The Baltic Warby Eric Flint
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The Baltcv War continues the Assiti Shards separation from history while it adds charactes from history. The plot bounces around between threads as do many of the other books, but its not handled quite as weill. Not the best book in the set, but well worth reading if you liked any others or wish to continue in the set. ( )Sample Chapters: http://webscriptions.net/chapters/A14... Sample Chapters: http://webscriptions.net/chapters/141... Another disappointment in this series. If I didn't think it had so much promise, I wouldn't complain so much. That said, favorite characters devolve into caricatures of themselves (all of the tower inhabitants and longstanding plot lines are tied up too quickly. I think the authors are getting bored, but there are too many suckers like me paying full price for new hardbacks. A continuation of Flint's 'Assiti Shards' series which began with 1632, the story is carried further as the transplanted Americans continue to reshape European history. This has got decisive battles, boring politicians (and not-so-boring ones), Oliver Cromwell, Gustavus Adolphus, and a host of others. 0.599 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 141652102X, Hardcover)The Baltic War which began in the novel 1633 is still raging, and the time-lost Americans of Grantville¿the West Virginia town hurled back into the seventeenth century by a mysterious cosmic accident¿are caught in the middle of it. Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden and Emperor of the United States of Europe, prepares a counter-attack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and Denmark¿former enemies which have allied in the League of Ostend to destroy the threat to their power that the Americans represent¿which are besieging the German city of Luebeck. Elsewhere in war-torn Europe, several American plans are approaching fruition. Admiral Simpson of Grantville frantically races against time to finish the USE Navy¿s ironclad ships¿desperately needed to break the Ostender blockade of the Baltic ports. A commando unit sent by Mike Stearns to England prepares the rescue the Americans being held in the Tower of London. In Amsterdam, Rebecca Stearns continues three-way negotiations with the Prince of Orange and the Spanish Cardinal-Infante who has conquered most of the Netherlands. And, in Copenhagen, the captured young USE naval officer Eddie Cantrell tries to persuade the King of Denmark to break with the Ostender alliance, all while pursuing a romantic involvement with one of the Danish princesses.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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