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Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-twentieth century.
Berlin
in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to
understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his
grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend
and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who
soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism. He also encounters
a group of Germans resolved to oppose Hitler - but are they willing to
go so far as to betray their country? Such people are closely watched by
Volodya, a Russian with a bright future in Red Army Intelligence. The
international clash of military power and personal beliefs that ensues
will sweep over them all as it rages from Cable Street in London's East
End to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, from Spain to Stalingrad, from Dresden to
Hiroshima. At Cambridge Lloyd is irresistibly drawn to dazzling
American socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything his
left-wing family despise. But Daisy is more interested in aristocratic
Boy Fitzherbert - amateur pilot, party lover and leading light of the
British Union of Fascists. Back in Berlin, Carla worships golden boy
Werner from afar. But nothing will work out the way they expect as their
lives and the hopes of the world are smashed by the greatest and
cruellest war in the history of the human race.
Winter of the
World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious and deeply
satisfying trilogy 'The Century'. On its own or read in sequence with
Fall of Giants, this is a magnificent, spellbinding epic of global
conflict and personal drama.
