Winter Of The World | Ken Follett | Kharidobechobooks

Five international families. One catastrophic era. The ultimate battle between absolute tyranny and human freedom.

Step into the devastating, high-stakes corridors of mid-twentieth-century history in Winter of the World, the sweeping and masterfully told second installment of the global bestselling Century Trilogy by premier historical novelist Ken Follett. Picking up where Fall of Giants left off, this massive epic follows a new generation as their lives are irrevocably crushed, shaped, and reshaped by the largest global conflict in human history.

The narrative begins in Berlin in 1933, a city paralyzed by terror. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich watches in horror as Adolf Hitler systematically tightens his brutal grip on Germany. While her family resolves to risk everything to secretly oppose the Nazi regime, their moves are closely watched by Volodya, an brilliant young Russian rising rapidly through the ranks of Red Army Intelligence.

Meanwhile, across the English Channel at Cambridge, left-wing student Lloyd Williams finds himself irresistibly drawn to the dazzling American socialite Daisy Peshkov. But Daisy’s ambitions lie elsewhere—with Boy Fitzherbert, an arrogant British aristocrat and a leading light of the British Union of Fascists. From the violent street clashes of London's East End to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and from the freezing, blood-soaked ruins of Stalingrad to the blinding flashes over Hiroshima, these interconnected families find themselves swept into a global clash of military might and personal belief systems.

Meticulously researched, packed with breathless action, and told with unmatched narrative authority, Winter of the World delivers an unforgettable historical journey through the darkest winter of the modern world.