This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 2000 by Eric Flint
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Books Original
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ISBN: 0-671-57849-9
Cover art by Larry Elmore
Interior maps by Randy Asplund
First printing, February 2000
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Flint, Eric.
1632 / by Eric Flint.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-671-57849-9 (hc)
1. Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648—Fiction. 2. City and town life—West Virginia—Fiction. 3. Germany—History—1618–1648—Fiction.
4. Americans—Travel—Germany—Fiction. 5. West Virginia—Fiction. 6. Time travel—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3556.L548 A616 2000
813'.54—dc21 99-055275
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Typeset by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America
To my mother,
Mary Jeanne McCormick Flint,
and to the West Virginia
from which she came.
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