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Acknowledgments


The major acknowledgement, of course, is to Eric Flint for writing 1632, which spawned this fictional universe, and for inviting me to be a part of it.


Thanks to the numerous denizens of the 1632 Tech forum on Baen’s Bar who during the spring of 2019 participated in lively discussions concerning the status of the city of Bremen and the economic problems that would face the Province of Westphalia.


Thanks to Eric Flint for giving me permission to use the material in the Prologue, which saved a lot of explanation later on.


The proverb says that the making of laws and sausages should not be observed. The same is true of books. Thanks to my late husband’s cousin, who is also my genealogical friend Gail Von Bargen, for the use of her surname; to my cousin Mark Thames for an apt sentence; to Tim Walsh, the vicar at Grace Lutheran Church this year, for a discussion of imprecatory psalms; to my son Karl for a bit of New Testament Greek and some notes on Luke 16:1-13 from his isagogics course, to Laura Runkle and Michael Miller for a timely reminder in regard to Doctor Strangelove, and to Jim DeMarce for the use of one of his favorite aphorisms, slightly modified.


In May 2020, during the Covid-19 shut-down, a young bear decided to wander the streets of Falls Church, Virginia. I owe a subplot to his efforts to stake out a territory.


As always, I am profoundly grateful to all the historians and researchers who spend time in early modern European archives and publish their results. Please see the Afterword for a discussion of some of their products.


For this book specifically, I am grateful to all the world’s music teachers at all levels who enable children to sing and play instruments well and with joy. My five now-adult grandchildren would like to thank Twila Anderson, Lori Fulk, Eric Martins, Kevin Carr, Levi Nagel, Leigh Redfield, Kari Hurley, Linda Moeller, James Kieselhorst, Naomi Fritz, “and a whole stack from college, too.” They also have kind words for the teachers at Fox’s Music in Falls Church, Virginia, and the Levine School of Music in Arlington, Virginia.


From Baen’s Bar, for assistance with the Battle of Bornhöved, Anette Pedersen for a useful article and especially for the maps of the 1813 Napoleonic Era conflict, Bjorn Hasseler, Robert E. Waters, and George Haberberger.


Many thanks to Walt Boyes, the editor in chief of the Ring of Fire Press, for struggling with my manuscripts, and to Gorg Huff for turning them into something that is e-book friendly.


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