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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Since reading the First of the Series 1632, I looked forward to each new book to hit the book stores. This is also one of the few series my boyfriend and I fight over, for who will get first chance to read in hardback. (  ) Elneclare | Oct 7, 2009 |  I think I bought this along with 1632 at a book sale which coupled with a stretch in which I was procrastinating was the only reason I read this book after 1632 (  ) vamshi | Jul 14, 2009 | (Alistair) And now, the sequel to 1632, reached at last. Well, you can read much of my 1632 review over again (complete with comments, for full picture) when it comes to this one. It's a good sequel to the former book, and preserves its tone, merits and flaws pretty much intact, despite the addition of a co-writer to this one. In another sense, it's also a good sequel to 1632 inasmuch as, given the premises and events of 1632, it plays out very well as a logical extrapolation of the events depicted in the prior book and their consequences, especially as the European powers of the time start gaining access to information relating to their future history and acting in accordance with what they've learned. (As as a side note, I was especially pleased to see one of the antagonists of the prior book quote-redeemed-unquote in a manner consistent with his character and talents.) Overall: good book. Recommended for those who enjoyed 1632, and vice versa. ( http://weblog.siliconcerebrate.com/ce... ) (  ) libraryofus | Dec 8, 2008 | Similar to the first, though I didn't care for the ending that much. (  ) TadAD | May 31, 2008 | The sequel to Eric Flint's 1632. Another great Alt. Hist. book. I enjoyed this book very much. While continuing the story of 1632, this book goes more into politics and real history of the time. A good look at 17th century politics even if this is an alternate history book. I cannot recommend this book enough. ( ) tcgardner | Apr 7, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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The new government in central Europe, called the Confederated Principalities of Europe, was formed by an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians led by Mike Stearns who were transplanted into 17th-century Germany by a mysterious cosmic accident. The new regime is shaky. Outside its borders, the Thirty Years War continues to rage. Within, it is beset by financial crisis as well as the political and social tensions between the democratic ideals of the 20th-century Americans and the aristocracy which continues to rule the roost in the CPE as everywhere in Europe.
Worst of all, the CPE has aroused the implacable hostility of Cardinal Richelieu, the effective ruler of France. Richelieu has created the League of Ostend in order to strike at the weakest link in the CPE's armorits dependence on the Baltic as the lifeline between Gustav Adolf's Sweden and the rest of his realm.
The greatest naval war in European history is about to erupt. Like it or not, Gustavus Adolphus will have to rely on Mike Stearns and the technical wizardry of his obstreperous Americans to save the King of Sweden from ruin.
Caught in the conflagration are two American diplomatic missions abroad: Rebecca Stearns' mission to France and Holland, and the embassy which Mike Stearns sent to King Charles of England headed by his sister Rita and Melissa Mailey. Rebecca finds herself trapped in war-torn Amsterdam; Rita and Melissa, imprisoned in the Tower of London.
And much as Mike wants to transport 20th-century values into war-torn 17th-century Europe by Sweet Reason, still he finds comfort in the fact that Julie, who once trained to be an Olympic marksman, still has her rifle...
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