The magnificent historical epic by Ken Follett follows the journey of five families throughout the 20th century... In the second book of the trilogy "WINTER OF THE WORLD", Follett's heroes – and along with them, all of humanity – enter a time of tremendous upheaval, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, continuing with the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and concluding with the dropping of the atomic bomb and the onset of the Cold War.

The German Carla von Ulrich, as the tide of Nazism inundates the country, performs an act of incredible courage... The American Dewar brothers take different paths in front of world-changing events, one in Washington, the other in the jungles of the Pacific... The English student Lloyd Williams is thrown into the fire of the Spanish Civil War... The American Daisy Peskov, who is only interested in social climbing, sees the war radically change her life.

Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union, her cousin Volodya secures a position in the secret services that will affect not only this war but the next one as well... From the salons of the rich to the blood-soaked battlefields, their lives intertwine inextricably with each other and with the great, dramatic events of a harsh, dark era that Follett aptly calls "Winter of the World"...