Ken Follett’s extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion.In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the … of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll.
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. . . . George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy’s Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. . . . Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he’d imagined. . . . Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history.
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Loved the whole series and was so sad to see it end.
Read the trilogy for a great trip through history.
I like Ken Follett. Besides being an excellent story-teller, he writes big thick books so you get your money’s worth. This final part of the Century Trilogy focuses heavily on the Civil Rights movement. I don’t know how he keeps track of the many, many characters and all their relationships. It had been a while since I read volume 2, so it took me quite a bit to figure out who everybody was again. But I thoroughly enjoyed the history lesson on the 2nd half of the last century. Good stuff.
Love Ken Folllett historic action packed novels
This series was phenomenal. I thought the first book was the best, but that had the advantage of setting the stage for everything that followed. This is a wonderful conclusion to an amazing trilogy!
Loved it
Through this series, Follet as managed to enterwine his characters in the most significant events of the 20th century.
Great historical fiction as usual. Great writing!
Very good book. However, not to the same level as the first two.
Not as good as the first two in this trilogy.
A good read if you like history
This series if full of history and mystery. I could not put it down.
I liked Fall of Giants better. This one was OK.
Book three of the Century Trilogy. Story line continues with WWII ending, Cold War, Cuba crisis …
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