Ken Follett Century Trilogy Series Collection 3 Books Set

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Ken Follett Century Trilogy Series Collection 3 Books Setnbsp Description Fall of Giants The first in Ken Folletts bestselling Century Trilogy Fall of Giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the worldshaking dramas of the First World War the Russian Revolution & the struggle for votes for women It is 1911 The Coronation Day of King George V The Williams a Welsh coalmining family is linked by romance & enmity to the Fitzherberts aristocratic coalmine owners Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich a spy at the German Embassy in London Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to US President Woodrow Wilson & with two orphaned Russian brothers whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war conscription & revolution In a plot of unfolding drama & intriguing complexity Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg from the dirt & danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty Winter of the Worldnbsp Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval Elevenyearold Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany Into this turmoil steps her mothers formidable friend & former British MP Ethel Leckwith & her student son Lloyd who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism He also encounters a group of Germans resolved to oppose Hitler but are they willing to go so far as to betray their country Such people are closely watched by Volodya a Russian with a bright future in Red Army Intelligence The international clash of military power & personal beliefs that ensues will sweep over them all as it rages from Cable Street in Londons East End to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii from Spain to Stalingrad from Dresden to Hiroshima At Cambridge Lloyd is irresistibly drawn to dazzling American socialite Daisy Peshkov who represents everything his leftwing family despise But Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert amateur pilot party lover & leading light of the British Union of Fascists Back in Berlin Carla worships golden boy Werner from afar But nothing will work out the way they expect as their lives & the hopes of the world are smashed by the greatest & cruellest war in the history of the human race Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Folletts uniquely ambitious & deeply satisfying trilogy The Century On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants & Edge of Eternity this is a magnificent spellbinding epic of global conflict & personal drama Edge of Eternity Five families Three decades One extraordinary era As the decisions made in the corridors of power bring the world to the brink of oblivion five families from across the globe are brought together in an unforgettable tale of passion & conflict during the Cold War When Rebecca Hoffmann a teacher in East Germany finds herself pursued by the secret police she discovers that she has been living a lie Her younger brother Walli longs to escape across the Berlin Wall to Britain to become part of the burgeoning music scene In the United States George Jakes a bright young lawyer in the Kennedy administration is a fierce supporter of the Civil Rights movement as is the woman he is in love with Verena who works for Martin Luther King Jr Boarding a Greyhound bus in Washington to protest against segregation they begin a fateful journey together Russian activist Tania Dvorkin narrowly evades capture for producing an illegal news sheet Her actions are made all the more perilous as her brother Dimka is a rising star in the heart of the Communist Party in the Kremlin From the deep south of America to the vast expanses of Siberia from the shores of Cuba to the swinging streets of Sixties London Ken Folletts Edge of Eternity is a sweeping tale of the fight for individual freedom in a world gripped by the mightiest clash of superpowers anyone has ever known