Book description
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.
Ken Follett was twenty-seven when he wrote Eye of the Needle,
an award-winning thriller that became an international bestseller. He
then surprised everyone with The Pillars of the Earth, about
the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages, which continues to
captivate millions of readers all over the world and its long-awaited
sequel, World Without End, was a number one bestseller in the
US, UK and Europe. Fall of Giants, the first bestselling book
in the Century trilogy is followed by this, Winter of the
World.
