1634: The Bavarian Crisis Audiobook (Free)

The Thirty Years Battle is constantly on the ravage 17th century European countries, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, as well as the West Virginians from your 20th century led by Mike Stearns who have been hurled centuries into the past with a mysterious cosmic accident. The CPE gets the know-how of 20th hundred years technology, but desires iron and steel to make the machines. The iron mines of the top Palatinate had been about 1634: The Bavarian Turmoil rendered inoperable by wartime damage, and American know-how is necessary at that moment to pump them out and get the metal moving again-a mission which will prove more complicated than anyone needs. In the maelstrom that’s Europe, even a 20th hundred years copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica can precipitate a crisis, when readers learn of the 1640 Portuguese revolt, an emergency that may involve Naples as well. Another aspect: Albanian exiles in Naples, inspired by the Us citizens, are plotting to recover lost Albanian turf, that may precipitate yet another turmoil in the Balkans. This troubled century was full of revolutions and plans for more revolutions before the People in america arrived, and gave every would-be groundbreaking an example of a trend that succeeded. Europe is a container coming to a boil, and Mike Stearns could have his hands complete seeing that it doesn’t boil over to Grantville and the CPE.