![]() Not all of them are aware of the skeletons in the closets, and there are an awful lot of those, but the history they have to face is every bit as tough as that endured by their parents – even more so. We meet some of the same familiar characters in Winter of the World but now it is mostly the turn of their offspring. ![]() In that we were introduced to a small group of families – the Peshkovs, the Von Ulrichs, the Williamses, the Dewars and the Fitzherberts – as well as a host of real historical figures – both poor and rich, powerful and oppressed, who loved, fought and hated, while managing to stamp their mark on history despite the ferocity of events that swept across Britain, Europe, the United States and Russia during the first three decades of the 20th century. ![]() I think to appreciate Winter of the World fully you would need to have read Fall of Giants. The wait was worth it and I needn’t have worried. ![]() Beginning in the early years of the 20th century in the dark, dirty and dangerous coal mines of Wales, radiating out through a web of interconnected families to tell the story of the Red Revolution in Russia, the First World War and the Depression in the United States, it set a standard that left me craving its follow up Winter of the World while fearing that it could not live up to its predecessor. Fall of Giants, published 2010, has a power that gripped me from the very first page. ![]()
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