Reims, maggio 1944.
Un gruppo di partigiani francesi tenta l'assalto al castello di Sainte-Cécile, centro nevralgico dell'occupazione tedesca, ma lo spietato maggiore Dieter Frank riesce a respi
Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and 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 and personal beliefs that ensues will sweep over them all as it rages from Cable Street in London's 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 left-wing family despise. But Daisy is more interested in aristocratic Boy Fitzherbert - amateur pilot, party lover and 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 and the hopes of the world are smashed by the greatest and cruellest war in the history of the human race. Winter of the World is the second novel in Ken Follett's uniquely ambitious and deeply satisfying trilogy 'The Century'. On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants, this is a magnificent, spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama.
Ils ont entendu parler d'un fabuleux Modigliani perdu et sont prêts à tout pour mettre la main dessus : une jeune étudiante en histoire de l'art dévorée d'ambition, un marchand de tableau
A la veille de la guerre de 1914-1918, les grandes puissances vivent leurs derniers moments d'insouciance. Bientôt la violence va déferler sur le monde. De l'Europe aux États-Unis, du fond de
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but come home in the end; the other will be a powerful, corrupt nobleman. One girl will defy the might of the medieval church; the other will pursue an impossible love. And always they will live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day.Ken Follett's masterful epic "The Pillars of the Earth" enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now "World Without End" takes the readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change. 'Follett's storytelling skills keep you compulsively turning the pages to the satisfactory ending of good triumphant over evil' - "Daily Mail".
Cinque famiglie legate l'una all'altra il cui destino si compie durante la metà del ventesimo secolo, in un mondo funestato dalle dittature e dalla guerra. Berlino nel 1933 è in subbuglio. L'undicenne Carla von Ulrich, figlia di Lady Maud Fitzherbert, cerca con tutte le forze di comprendere le tensioni che stanno lacerando la sua famiglia, nei giorni in cui Hitler inizia l'inesorabile ascesa al potere. In questi tempi tumultuosi fanno la loro comparsa sulla scena Ethel Leckwith, la formidabile amica di Lady Maud ed ex membro del parlamento inglese, e suo figlio Lloyd, che presto sperimenterà sulla propria pelle la brutalità nazista. Lloyd entra in contatto con un gruppo di tedeschi decisi a opporsi a Hitler, ma avranno davvero il coraggio di tradire il loro paese? A Berlino Carla s'innamora perdutamente di Werner Franck, erede di una ricca famiglia, anche lui con un suo segreto. Ma il destino lì metterà a dura prova, così come le vite e le speranze di tanti altri verranno annientate dalla più grande e crudele guerra nella storia dell'umanità, che si scatenerà con violenza da Londra a Berlino, dalla Spagna a Mosca, da Pearl Harbor a Hiroshima, dalle residenze private alla polvere e al sangue delle battaglie che hanno segnato l'intero secolo. "L'inverno del mondo", secondo romanzo della trilogia "The Century", prende le mosse da dove si era chiuso il primo libro, ritrovando i personaggi de "La caduta dei giganti", ma soprattutto i loro figli. - See more at: http://www.italianbookshop.co.uk/italianbooks/9788866210566#sthash.30k6BeEK.dpuf
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