FREEDOM & JUSTICE — AMERICAN STYLE 1632 & in northern Germany things couldn&t get much worse Famine Disease Religous war laying waste the cities Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants death was a mercy 2000 Things are going OK in Grantville West Virginia & everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn&s sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America which Mike leads) is having a good time THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED When the dust settles Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened & finds the road into town is cut as with a sword On the other side a scene out of Hell a man nailed to a farmhouse door his wife & daughter attacked by men in steel vests Faced with this Mike & his friends don&t have to ask who to shoot At that moment Freedom & Justice American style are introduced to the middle of the Thirty Years& War Comprehensive Teacher&s Guide available