List of 1632 Characters (fictional) - Jesse Wood

Jesse Wood

Colonel James "Jesse" Wood was a retired United States Air Force tanker pilot and has been involved from the outset in the NUS/USE efforts to develop basic aircraft and build an air force. He is unpretentious and informal with a tendency to calmness when others would panic, perhaps necessary traits in the NUS air force's sole test pilot. He has a bent for organization and through the loss of his protégé, Hans Richter in the Battle of Wismar has developed a strong dislike for the opponents of the NUS and Gustavus Adolphus. During the winter of 1633-34 Wood organizes a "message sending" demonstration to bomb Paris, and let Cardinal Richelieu know just what the up-timers and Gustavus's administration (now reorganized as the United States of Europe) "thinks" of Richelieu's recent changes in French foreign policy which resulted in the League of Ostend and a French army besieging Gustav in Lübeck. Referred to by both allies and enemies as Der Adler (the Eagle).

Assiti Shards series by Eric Flint
1632 series
Main series novels
  • 1632 (2000)
  • 1633 (2002)
  • 1634: The Baltic War (2007)
  • 1635: The Eastern Front (2010)
  • 1636: The Saxon Uprising (2011)
  • 1634: The Galileo Affair (2004)
  • 1635: The Cannon Law (2006)
  • 1635: The Papal Stakes (2012)
  • 1634: The Ram Rebellion (2006)
  • 1635: The Tangled Web (2009)
  • 1634: The Bavarian Crisis (2007)
  • 1635: The Dreeson Incident (2008)
  • 1636: The Kremlin Games (2012)
  • The Anaconda Project (being serialized)
  • The Essen Chronicles (being serialized)
  • Stretching Out (being serialized)
  • Sonata (serialized)
  • Turn Your Radio On (being serialized)
  • Northwest Passage (being serialized)
  • Second Chance Bird (serialized)
The Grantville Gazettes
  • Grantville Gazette I (2004)
  • Grantville Gazette II (2006)
  • Grantville Gazette III (2007)
  • Grantville Gazette IV (2008)
  • Grantville Gazette V (2009)
  • Grantville Gazette VI (2012)
  • Grantville Gazette e-magazine (bimonthly as of 2012)
Ring of Fire anthologies
  • Ring of Fire (2004)
  • Ring of Fire II (2008)
  • Ring of Fire III (2011)
Other branches
  • Time Spike (2008)
  • By Any Other Name (Projected)

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