Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101591439
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"This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." —The Huffington Post 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 and the fast set until war transforms her life, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war but also the war to come.
Language: en
Pages: 928
Pages: 928
"This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages." —The Huffington Post 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,
Language: uk
Pages: 243
Pages: 243
Language: en
Pages: 182
Pages: 182
Classic SF from the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of The Boat of a Million Years. Thousands of years from now, after a new Ice Age has reduced our world to frozen ruins, new civilizations and cultures arise from the ice. But as the people uncover the lost technology of
Language: en
Pages: 160
Pages: 160
This new anthology brings together 270 poems and is the most complete and authoritative ever compiled. Arranged by year rather than by poet, it is the first to reveal how poetry developed between 1914 and 1918, and afterwards from 1919 - 1930. The poetry that came out of the First
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Japanese edition of Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. An epic world-spanning novel following the lives of a half dozen people as the political world experiences one gigantic upheaval after another. Continuation of Fall of Giants, follows conflicts both personal and national from
Language: en
Pages: 576
Pages: 576
In this gorgeous, dark fantasy in the spirit of Jacqueline Carey, a princess and a duke must protect the people of their nations when a terrible threat leaves everyone in danger. With the Mad King of Emmer in the north and the vicious King of Pohorir in the east, Kehara
Language: en
Pages: 472
Pages: 472
Winter falls hard on Oregon, burying the world under snow and ice. One group of survivors, stuck in a tomb of their own creation, fights to survive, while another group treks across the snowbound countryside, leaving a trail of bloody footprints in their wake... and an army of the undead.
Language: en
Pages: 342
Pages: 342
Books about Potential Energy Crisis in the Winter of 2000
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Books about A Winter in Washington; or, Memoirs of the Family
Language: uk
Pages: 504
Pages: 504
«Життя за життям» Кейт Аткінсон - світовий бестселер, переможець Costa Book Awards (2013), найкращий історичний роман 2013 року за версією читачів Goodreads. Входить у топ-10 найкращих книжок 2013 року за рейтингом New York Times Book Review. ТЕМАТИКА Художня література ПРО КНИЖКУ Урсула Тодд заходить до мюнхенського кафе в листопаді 1930