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Ken Follett follows-up his number 1 Ny Times best-seller Drop of Leaders having an amazing, page-turning epic concerning the heroism and recognition of World-War II, and the beginning of the nuclear era. Ken Follett’s Drop of Leaders, the very first story in his remarkable new historical epic, The Century Trilogy, was a global experience, heralded as “sweeping and intriguing, a book that'll eat you for nights or weeks” (USA Today) and “grippingly informed and understandable to the end” (The New York Times Book Review). “If the following two volumes are as exciting and enjoyable as Drop of Leaders,” said The Washington Post, “they must certanly be really worth waiting for.” Winter of the World picks up right where in actuality the first book left off, as its five related families—American, German, Russian, English, Welsh—enter a period of huge social, political, and financial uncertainty, you start with the rise of the 3Rd Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the truly amazing dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet nuclear weapons. Carla von Ulrich, born of English and German parents, discovers her living till she commits a deed of wonderful heartbreak and bravery surrounded by the Nazi wave.