Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide, until daring to commit a deed of great courage and heartbreak.American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific.English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism.Daisy Peshkov, a driven social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set, until war transforms her life, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war but also the war to come.
Now Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families≺merican, German, Russian, English, and Welshenter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs and the beginning of the long Cold War. Well-researched and well-written.Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary historical epic Century Trilogy, was an international sensation, acclaimed as sweeping and fascinating, a book that will consume you for days or weeks” ( USA Today ). On its own or consumed in sequence with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is a spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama. The five interrelated families from Fall of Giants, the first book in the Century trilogy, face the rise and fall of the Third Reich, the Spanish Civil War, conflicts with the USSR and communism, atomic bombs, and the beginning of the cold war, as well as their personal relationships and issues. Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Folletts uniquely ambitious Century trilogy. more Europe, Russia, Great Britain, and America. Second in the trilogy, the story takes place between 19 in.
The knowledge of the author and his opinions about the presidents and major players in our world are more fixed and the judgment on each leader becomes clearer and clearer as the book moves toward the end of WW II and the trip into the Cold War and the end of the Twentieth Century, the subject of the third book. As a review of the Twentieth Century, this book begins to be more political. This book as the second follows similar patterns to The Fall of Giants in that it follows the five families as they wend their ways through the English, Russian, German, Black and White American experiences. Review 1: I read these three books as one immense book, over three thousand pages long.
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