Charity's Chains: The Palatine Journey: Part Two

by Kay Ellen Gilmour

The first book in this series, "Winter's Wrath," followed a small band of Palatines as they fled their German homes, devastated by the unending wars with the French and the brutal winter of 1708-09, to make their way up the Rhine to Amsterdam.
This second book of this series follows them from The Netherlands over the North Sea to a prolonged stay in London as the government and church leaders tried to deal with their growing thousands seeking passage and land in Queen Anne's New World colonies.
From a direct descendant of these Palatine immigrants comes a well-crafted telling of danger, adventure, good humor and the resilience of the human spirit. The true story of this incredible migration weaves history and fiction into a compelling narrative.

462 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 31, 2011

Reviews

[Jonathan Bechtel]

It's an interesting read if your relatives were Palatines. Which I think some of mine were, or at least from that area of Germany, that left in the 1750's.