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1636: The Ottoman Onslaught
Written by Eric Flint
Narrated by George Guidall
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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The uptimers and their allies take on the Ottoman Empire at its height of power. The modern West Virginia town of Grantville has been displaced in time to continental Europe in 1632. Now four years have passed. The long-feared attack on Austria by the Ottoman Empire has begun. Armed with new weapons inspired by the time-displaced Americans of Grantville, the Turks are determined to do what they were unable to do in the universe the Americans came from: capture Vienna. The Ottomans have the advantage of being able to study the failings and errors of their own campaigns in a future they can now avoid. They are led by the young, dynamic, and ruthless Murad IV, the most capable emperor the Ottomans have produced in a century. They are equipped with weapons that would have seemed fantastical to the Turks of that other universe: airships, breech-loading rifles, rockets-even primitive tanks. And this time they won't have to face massive reinforcements from Austria's allies. In fact, the only force Emperor Gustav Adolf can think of sending to Austria is the United States of Europe Third Division under the command of Mike Stearns. It's an army currently engaged in a desperate struggle for Bavaria. The emperors of the USE and Austria share the same problem. They have one too many enemies, one too few allies, and only one general to cover the gaps. Fortunately, that general is Mike Stearns, also known as the Prince of Germany.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wow, try to keep up. Gretchen is becoming a force to be reckoned with. The Ottomans have a flea in their ear now. Mike Stearns might become a great military leader yet. And attrition is wearing down the number of original arrivals.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This outstanding series continues with a splendid new addition. New foes bring new challenges and many opportunities for Flint to recast the 17th Century. Here come the Turks, they are really mostly Albanian Muslims, with new weapons, large armies and an innovative, energetic, young Sultan, Murad IV. Almost every one , the Barbies, Jooli the rifleperson, 2 Polish Hussars are added to the mix, is involved as the USE undertakes electoral challenges and readies to defend its western lands. Several personal, mixing up and down timers, liaisons are formed and/or consummated. Class and religious bans and boundaries are ignored or overruled as democratic principles infiltrate all aspects of the early 1600s
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ongoing Ring of Fire saga continues with the Ottoman invasion of Vienna, almost 50 years early. Uptimer history books show that the Ottomans were defeated when they invaded in 1683, so no one is worried. But Sultan Murad has a huge army and several new technologies that no one saw coming. And there are also wars and unrest going on in Poland, Saxony, Bavaria, and Bohemia.By now there are a lot of continuing characters to carry various parts of the story. Flint handles them ably, both his originals and the ones invented by other writers in the series. The military action is well-done. Altogether, a solid entry in the ongoing series, as one would expect from Flint.Recommended for fans of military fiction, historical fiction, and alternate history.