Winter of the World

by Ken Follett · 2013

Spanning the tumultuous decades from the 1910s through the 1940s, *Winter of the World* follows three interwoven families—American, German, and Russian—as they are swept up in the cataclysms of World War I, the Russian Revolution, the rise of fascism, and the Second World War. Through the eyes of engineers, journalists, doctors, and soldiers, Ken Follett paints a vivid portrait of love, ambition, betrayal, and survival against a backdrop of historic events that reshaped the globe. As personal destinies clash with the forces of history, the novel captures the relentless drive of ordinary people to endure, adapt, and hope amid the darkest winter of the twentieth century.