Others tour the world as reporters or aides to major political figures. The novel also covers a range of personal events. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and the Solidarity movement in Poland. These include the civil rights movement in the US, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations of President John F. The novel covers a range of world events during the period, often from multiple points of view. Once again, the major characters are the children of the characters who were seen in the first two novels. The story follows characters from Germany, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, who become linked by events from just before the construction of the Berlin wall in 1961 to that wall’s demise in 1989 (and in an epilogue to the night of Barack Obama’s election in 2008). The novel's characters become involved in a number of the most significant global events during the period, including the Cuban Missile Crisis, the British Invasion, the Kennedy Administration, the Watergate scandal, and the Civil Rights Movement. The novel tells the story of the third generation of families developed in the first two novels and located in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. It is the third book in the Century Trilogy, after Fall of Giants and Winter of the World. Shaken by the tyranny and the prospect of war, five interconnected families' lives become ever more enmeshed.Edge of Eternity is a historical and family saga novel by Welsh-born author Ken Follett, published in 2014. Many are resolved to oppose Hitler's brutal regime - but are they willing to betray their country?Ī global conflict on a scale never seen before. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants and Edge of Eternity, this is a magnificent, spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama.ġ933, and at Cambridge, Lloyd Williams is drawn to irresistible socialite Daisy Peshkov, who represents everything that his left-wing family despise, but Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert, a leading light of the British Union of Fascists.īerlin is in turmoil. Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious and deeply satisfying Century trilogy.
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