The first part of the Century Trilogy which follows five
interrelated families throughout the course of the 20th century. The
first book covers notable events such as World War I, the Russian
Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. The sequel Winter of the World covers World War II and was published on September 18, 2012. The third book, Edge of Eternity, covers the Cold War and was published in 2014.
#1. Fall of Giants
#2. Winter of the World
#3. Edge of Eternity
GoodReads Rating: 4.05/5
Edge of Eternity is the sweeping, passionate conclusion to Ken Follett’s extraordinary historical epic, The Century Trilogy.
Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes
of five intertwined families – American, German, Russian, English, and
Welsh – as they make their way through the twentieth century. Now they
come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the enormous social,
political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1980s, from
civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to
the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment,
revolution – and rock and roll.
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she’s been spied on by
the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her
family for the rest of their lives.…George Jakes, the child of a
mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F.
Kennedy’s Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only
of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more
personal battle of his own.…Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator,
jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a
cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more
dangerous place than he’d imagined.…Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to
Nikita Khrushchev, becomes a prime agent both for good and for ill as
the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war,
while his twin sister, Tania, carves out a role that will take her from
Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw – and into history.
As always with Follett, the historical background is brilliantly
researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in
nuance and emotion. With the hand of a master, he brings us into a world
we thought we knew but now will never seem the same again.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.3/5
Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as
its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English,
Welsh—enter 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, up to the explosions of the
American and Soviet atomic bombs.
Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life
engulfed by the Nazi tide until she commits 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
American social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set,
until the war transforms her life, not just once but twice, while her
cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will
affect not only this war—but the war to come.
These characters and many others find their lives inextricably
entangled as their experiences illuminate the cataclysms that marked the
century. From the drawing rooms of the rich to the blood and smoke of
battle, their lives intertwine, propelling the reader into dramas of
ever-increasing complexity.
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GoodReads Rating: 4.26/5
This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. This
is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking
dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle
for votes for women.
It
is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh
coal-mining family is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts,
aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with
Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny
is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to
emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. In a
plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, “Fall Of Giants”
moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and
danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from
the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.
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