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description: NEW SOLO NOVEL BY ERIC FLINT IN THE BEST-SELLING RING OF FIRE SERIES! The Ottoman Empire has captured Vienna and is now laying siege to the Austrian government-in-exile established in the city of Linz. Both the United States of Europe and the Kingdom of Bohemia have come to Austrias assistance but everyone knows this is going to be a long and brutal struggle. In order to relieve the pressure on the Austrians General Mike Stearns proposes to open a second front in the Levant. The USEs emperor Gustavus Adolphus gives his approval to the plan and Mike sets it in motion with the very capable assistance of his wife Rebecca Abrabanel now the USEs Secretary of State. Meanwhile Poland is coming to a boil. Gretchen Richter the newly elected chancellor of Saxony has seized control of Lower Silesia. Her small army is now approached to form an alliance with the Polish revolutionaries who have seized power in the Ruthenian province of Galiciawhich in the universe the time-displaced Americans of Grantville came from would have constituted the western Ukraine. Now the Bohemians send an army led by Morris Roth into Poland ostensibly to aid the revolutionaries but also with the goal of expanding King Albrecht Wallensteins growing empire in eastern Europe. Andthe icing on the cakeMike Stearns sends the Hangman Regiment of his Third Division under the command of Jeff Higgins to reinforce Jeffs wife Gretchen in Silesia. The maelstrom in Poland grows . . . and grows . . . and grows . . . Will it drag all its displaced Americans and their allies down with it? At the publisher's request this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About 1635: A Parcel of Rogues: The 20th volume in this popular fast-paced alternative history series follows close on the heels of the events in The Baltic War picking up with the protagonists in London including sharpshooter Julie Sims. This time the 20th-century transplants are determined to prevent the rise of Oliver Cromwell and even have the support of King Charles.Library Journal About 1634: The Galileo Affair: A rich complex alternate history with great characters and vivid action. A great read and an excellent book.David Drake Gripping . . . depicted with power!Publishers Weekly About Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series: This alternate history series is . . . a landmarkBooklist [Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.Booklist  . . . reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis . . . Publishers Weekly Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction with over three million books in print. Hes the author/creator of the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series starting with first novel 1632. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the Belisarius alternate Roman history series and with David Weber collaborated on 1633 and 1634: The Baltic War and latest Honorverse series entry Cauldron of Ghosts. Flint's latest Ring of Fire novel is 1636: The Ottoman Onslaught. Flint was for many years a labor union activist. He lives near Chicago Illinois.
language: English
title: 1637: The Polish Maelstrom
publisher: Baen Books