Winter of the World

, #2

Mass Market Paperback, 890 pages

English language

Published Aug. 26, 2014 by Dutton.

ISBN:
978-0-451-46822-2
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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 …

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Winter of the World continues the saga begun in Fall of Giants, with the events within happening in the years 1933 to 1949. Most of the characters from the first book are still here, but the focus has shifted to the following generation. The writing felt a bit formulaic this time round. There's always a couple destined to be together. In the first book this was Lady Maud Fitzherbert and Walter von Ulrich. In this book it's Daisy Peshkov, daughter to the now American scoundrel Lev Peshkov, and Lloyd Williams, son of Ethel Williams and Earl Fitzherbert. Woody Dewar was definitely pretty much a copy of his father in the first book, and Volodya's chapters were a lot like Grigori's, the Russian who supports Communism but has his doubts about the system. And so on. The characters are all still a bit flat, rather one-dimensional. They could have been so …

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Twentieth century
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • History