1634

The Baltic War which began in the novel 1633 is still raging, and the time-lost Americans of Grantville, the West Virginia town hurled back into the seventeenth century by a mysterious cosmic accident, are caught in the middle of it. Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden and Emperor of the United States of Europe, prepares a counter-attack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and Denmark--former enemies which have allied in the League of Ostend to destroy the threat to their power that the Americans represent--which are besieging the German city of Luebeck. Elsewhere in war-torn Europe, several American plans are approaching fruition.