{"product_id":"1635-the-wars-for-the-rhine-ring-of-fire-9781481483216","title":"1635: The Wars for the Rhine (Ring of Fire)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn exciting addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire alternate history series created by Eric Flint. Time travelers from our modern age are thrown into the deadly straits of the Thirty Years War in Europe of the 1600s.  In the year 1635  the Rhineland is in turmoil. The impact of the Ring of Fire  the cosmic accident which transported the small modern West Virginia town of Grantville to Europe in the early seventeenth century  has only aggravated a situation that was already chaotic. Perhaps nowhere in central Europe did the Thirty Years War produce so much upheaval as it did in the borderlands between France and Germany.  Archbishop Ferdinand of Cologne shares the religious fanaticism of his older brother  Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. He is determined to restore the power of the Catholic Church over the middle Rhine  the so-called Bishops Alley  and has unleashed a plot for that purpose. But that same middle Rhine is territory which Landgrave William V of Hesse-Kassel is determined to seize for himself  under the guise of expanding the influence of the United States of Europe.  Add to the witchs brew the deaths in battle of Duke Wolfgang of Jlich-Berg and his son  which leaves his young widow Katharina Charlotte as the heir to those much-prized territories. She is now on the run  in disguiseand pregnant. Add the unexpected arrival of Austrias most capable general  Melchior von Hatzfeldt  along with the most ruthless spy and torturer in the Rhineland  Felix Gruyard.  The wars for the Rhine have erupted  and only the devil knows how they will end.  About Eric Flints Ring of Fire series:  This alternate history series is . . . a landmark . . .Booklist  Eric Flints 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44901336416309,"sku":"ByrdShop_1481483218","price":97.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781481483216.jpg?v=1784754963","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/1635-the-wars-for-the-rhine-ring-of-fire-9781481483216","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}