Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
"This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." —The Huffington Post

Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War.

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.
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Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
"This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." —The Huffington Post

Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War.

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.
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Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)

Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)

by Ken Follett
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)

Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)

by Ken Follett

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"This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." —The Huffington Post

Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780451419248
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/27/2013
Series: The Century Trilogy , #2
Pages: 992
Sales rank: 43,560
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Ken Follett is one of the world’s best-loved authors, selling more than 160 million copies of his thirty books. Follett’s first bestseller was Eye of the Needle, a spy story set in the Second World War. 

In 1989 The Pillars of the Earth was published, and has since become the author’s most successful novel. It reached number one on bestseller lists around the world and was an Oprah’s Book Club pick.
 
Its sequels, World Without End and A Column of Fire, proved equally popular, and the Kingsbridge series has sold 38 million copies worldwide.
 
Follett lives in Hertfordshire, England, with his wife Barbara. Between them they have five children, six grandchildren, and three Labradors.

Hometown:

Hertfordshire, England

Date of Birth:

June 5, 1949

Place of Birth:

Cardiff, Wales

Education:

B.A. in Philosophy, University College, London, 1970

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What People are Saying About This

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“Some of the biggest-picture fiction being written today.”—The Seattle Times

“A consistently compelling portrait of a world in crisis.”—The Washington Post  

“Masterfully sweeping.”—The Louisville Courier-Journal

“Gripping…powerful.”—The New York Times

“[Follett] is so good at plotting a story, even one that takes on such a complex topic as the World War II era. That’s what makes Winter of the World so hard to put down. You want to know what happens next.”—The Associated Press

“An entertaining historical soap opera.”—Kirkus Reviews

Interviews

What was the motivation for following five different families, as opposed to a single family in the Century Trilogy.
I wanted my characters to be involved in all the major upheavals of the century—wars, revolutions, riots, and so on. It was quite difficult to achieve this with only five families. With one it would have been impossible.

When do you expect readers to see the last book?
Autumn 2014, if I finish it in time.

How was writing about the two World Wars different? Did it require changing gears to write about one versus the other. Was one more interesting to you?
We think of the Second World War as a crusade against evil, and no one is in any doubt about who the good and bad guys are. World War One is different: there are no good or bad guys, and our question is: How did we let this happen?

How many of your books have been adapted for film? Which was your favorite film? And do you have any favorite actors in those films?
I was very pleased with the movie of Eye of the Needle. The miniseries of The Pillars of the Earth is also terrific. Donald Sutherland was in both! I'm looking forward to seeing the miniseries of World Without End this autumn.

In Pillars of the Earth, you immerse the reader in the role of cathedrals in society. Does that interest date from your childhood, or did you come to in later in life?
Later. Like many youngsters I never looked at the buildings around me. In my twenties I started to be curious about buildings in general and cathedrals in particular. While studying cathedral architecture I began to read about the people who built these huge churches. Around the same time I was trying to make it as a novelist, and pretty soon I had the idea of writing a novel about building a cathedral.

What your favorite band? And what's the name of your band?
Lately I've been listening to the Black Keys, a guitar band with vocal harmonies, which is what I like best. I play bass in Damn Right I Got The Blues, which is an amateur blues-rock band made up of people like me who have a career and don't want to be in the music business except for fun. I play occasionally in a folk-rock band called Clog Iron.

And have you met the Queen?
Yes. She shook my hand and said nothing.

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