World Winter

Picking up where The Fall of Giants, the first novel in his extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows his five interconnected families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a period of massive social, political, and economic upheaval, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great drama of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War.

Carla von Ulrich, born to German and English parents, finds her life enveloped by the Nazi wave until she dares to commit an act of supreme courage and a broken heart... American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each carrying a secret, take separate paths to great 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 with the same vigor with which he fights fascism... Daisy Peshkoff, an ambitious social climber, cares only for fame and success until the war changes her life, while her cousin Volodya obtains a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war but also the next.