Winter from the World is the second novel in Ken Follett’s uniquely ambitious and deeply satisfying The Century Trilogy. Alone or read in series with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is an impressive, spellbinding epic of global turmoil and personal episode.

Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich problems to understand the tensions disrupting her family members as Hitler strengthens his grasp on Germany. Into this turmoil methods her mother’s formidable friend and about Winter of the World former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her pupil kid, Lloyd, who quickly learns for himself the brutal actuality of Nazism. He also encounters a group of Germans resolved to oppose Hitler – but are they willing to go as far as to betray their nation? Such people are carefully viewed by Volodya, a Russian using a bright future in Red Military Intelligence.

The international clash of armed forces 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 amazing American socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything his left-wing family members despise. But Daisy is usually interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert – amateur pilot, party lover and leading light from the United kingdom Union of Fascists.

Back Berlin, Carla worships golden youngster Werner from afar. But nothing at all will continue to work out just how they expect as their lives as well as the hopes from the world are smashed by the best and cruellest battle in the history of the human race.