Schroeter Chronicles: America

By James Bergenthal

Book Overview

The adventuresome and influential Schroeters portrayed in "The Schroeter Chronicles - The First Generation: Thuringia", and "The Schroeter Chronicles - Moving On" return in this concluding novel of the trilogy. It is now the middle of the nineteenth century, 1850. Ruling bodies are tumbling like wobbly dominoes. First, the victors of the Napoleonic wars abolished the Holy Roman Empire-a collection of hundreds of states under the rule of bishops, kings, counts and princes of all types. Then the Congress of Vienna dissolved the Confederation of the Rhine, Napoleons attempt at governing these same states, after Napoleon met his Waterloo. Now the German Confederation (Deutscher Bund), a loose league of 39 sovereign states is under pressure from its own citizens. On the other side of the Atlantic, in America, the revolution and wars of challenge are over, at least for a time. The promises of wealth, safety and religious freedom draw masses of people to this large melting pot, the greatest adventure on earth. Among these masses, in 1853, are Christian Schroeter and his family.Brave or fool-hearted, determined yet frightened, they settle in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. What does the five-year-old state of Wisconsin have to offer this adventuresome family? Can the Schroeters be prepared for whatever challenges lay ahead in their new America?Travel with the Schroeters, a family like yours and mine, as they experience modern life-the awe of rapid fire inventions, the roar of the Roaring Twenties, the depths of the Great Depression, the terror of war-and the everyday thrills of life on into the Twentieth Century.Look for the first and second books in the TrilogySchroeter Chronicles: The First Generation and ThuringiaSchroeter Chronicles: Moving On

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475075995
• ISBN13: 9781475075991
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 0.9" x 6.7"