1632 (Assiti Shards, #1)

1632 is the initial novel in the best-selling alternate history series of the same name, written by American historian, writer, and editor Eric Flint and published in February 2000.The flagship novel kicked off a collaborative writing effort that has involved hundreds of contributors and dozens of authors. The premise involves a small American town of three thousand, sent back to May 1631, in an alternate Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.