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((Short description|2012 novel by Ken Follett))
((distinguish|The World in Winter))
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((Infobox book | <!-- See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels]] or [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Books]] -->
| name          = Winter of the World
| title_orig    = 
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| image         = Winter of the World.jpg
| caption = First edition (UK)
| author        = [[Ken Follett]]
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| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
| series        = Century Trilogy
| genre         = [[Historical fiction]]
| publisher     = [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] (UK)<br />[[Dutton Penguin]] (US)
| pub_date      = 18 September 2012
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| media_type    = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]]), [[Ebook]]
| pages         = 940 (Hardcover, US edition)
| isbn          = 978-0-525-95292-3
| preceded_by   = [[Fall of Giants (novel)|Fall of Giants]]
| followed_by   = [[Edge of Eternity (novel)|Edge of Eternity]]
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'''''Winter of the World''''' is a [[historical novel]] written by the Welsh-born author [[Ken Follett]], published in 2012. It is the second book in the ''Century Trilogy''. Revolving about a [[family saga]] that covers the interrelated experiences of American, Russian, German and British families during the 20th century, the novel follows the second generation of those families, born to the main characters of the first novel, ''[[Fall of Giants]]'', and is followed by a further generation of those families in the third and final book in the series, ''[[Edge of Eternity (novel)|Edge of Eternity]]''.

The story starts in 1933, with the Nazi [[Adolf Hitler's rise to power|seizure of power]], includes [[World War II]], and concludes in 1949 in the early stages of the [[Cold War]].<ref>((cite web |title=Winter of the World - Ken Follett |url=https://ken-follett.com/books/winter-of-the-world-2/ |website=ken-follett.com |access-date=31 January 2022 |ref=1))</ref>

==Plot summary==

The story follows characters from [[Nazi Germany|Germany]], [[United Kingdom|Britain]], the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]], who become linked by events leading to [[World War II]], and continues through the war and its immediate aftermath. The major characters are often children of the characters who were seen in ''Fall of Giants''. The novel covers a wide range of world events during the period, including the rise of [[Nazism]], the ascent of [[Francisco Franco|Franco]] in Spain, the short-lived growth of [[British Fascism|British fascism]], [[Action T4]], the [[Battle of Moscow]], the [[The Blitz|Blitz]], the [[Normandy landings]], the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]], the development of [[Manhattan Project|the American atom bomb]] and [[Soviet nuclear program|the Soviet one]], the [[Battle of Berlin]] and many more. The families, spread across four countries, are related to each other, though they themselves aren't often aware of it.

Point of view characters include:

'''Carla von Ulrich''' - the daughter of [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] member Walter von Ulrich and magazine editor Lady Maud Fitzherbert - English aristocrat who had fallen in love with the German nobleman Walter just before [[WWI]] and followed her heart against all odds.  She was rejected for a medical scholarship due to the anti-female policies in Nazi Germany, but takes a job as a nurse in Berlin.  After her father is murdered by the [[Gestapo]] for protesting [[Aktion T4|Action T4]], she helps her friends- who are [[German resistance to Nazism|German Resistance]] members- transmit vital battle plans to the Soviet Union.  During the [[Battle of Berlin]] Carla witnesses a fourteen-year-old [[History of the Jews in Germany|Jewish]] girl named Rebecca about to be raped by five [[Red Army]] soldiers, and in an act of self-sacrifice offers herself to be raped instead. Becoming pregnant, she decides to have the child, cherish and raise him with her husband, Werner Franck and her mother.  She also adopts the girl Rebecca whom she saved. She becomes a [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democrat]] Berlin City Councillor, involved in confronting the Soviets during the 1948 [[Blockade of Berlin]].

'''Erik von Ulrich''' - Carla's older brother, he is much more narrow-minded and less liberal than his sister and parents.  Erik is initially a firm supporter of the Nazi regime and serves in the [[German Army (Wehrmacht)|German Army]] as a medical orderly in the invasions of [[Battle of France|France]] and [[Operation Barbarossa|Russia]].  However, when he witnesses the massacre of Jewish civilians by the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]]' [[Einsatzgruppen]], he has a change of heart.  Captured during the Battle of Berlin, Erik later becomes a die-hard supporter of [[communism]], much to his mother and sister's dismay.

'''Thomas Macke''' - a sadistic, ambitious member of the Gestapo.  A fanatical Nazi, Macke gains ownership of a restaurant owned by Walter von Ulrich's cousin Robert by threatening to persecute Robert for his homosexuality.  He later orders the murder of Carla and Erik's father and nearly manages to uncover the German Resistance circuit run by Carla and her boyfriend Werner.  When Macke is injured during a bombing, Werner smothers him to death in the hospital where Carla works.

'''Lloyd Williams''' - the son of [[Welsh people|Welsh]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] Ethel Leckwith and the bastard of Earl Fitzherbert (and therefore a cousin of Carla and Erik, whom he met in Berlin). Lloyd was a student at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] alongside his unknowing half-brother, [[Viscount]] 'Boy' Fitzherbert.  After leading anti-Fascist demonstrations in London, he fights for the [[Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)|Republican forces]] in the [[Spanish Civil War]] and later helps downed Allied airmen escape [[German-occupied France]] during World War II.  Lloyd falls in love with Daisy early in the story, though she doesn't reciprocate it until later.  After the war, he becomes a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] MP and supporter of the [[Marshall Plan]] to combat Soviet Union's communist expansionism.

'''Daisy Peshkov''' - the daughter of [[Russian Americans|Russian-American]] film tycoon/gangster Lev Peshkov and Olga Vyalov, she is initially a superficial but kind natured [[Parvenu|social climber]].  When she is rejected by  [[High society (social class)|high society]] in her native [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]] due to her father's reputation, she romances and later marries Viscount 'Boy' Fitzherbert in England.  However, their relationship soon breaks down due to his infidelities and her growing attraction to Lloyd Williams.  Daisy drives an ambulance during [[the Blitz]] and becomes close friends with Lloyd's mother Ethel.  After Boy is killed when his plane is shot down, Daisy marries Lloyd and starts a family with him after the war.

'''Grigori "Greg" Peshkov''' - Daisy's half-brother, the son of Lev and his mistress Marga.  A former student at [[Harvard University|Harvard]], Greg is very much his father's son in his initiative, ambition and womanizing habits.  He quickly rises amid the bureaucracy of [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C.]] during World War II and becomes an observer for the government on the [[Manhattan Project]], the development of the nuclear bomb.  During World War II, Greg discovers he has a son, Georgy, conceived during his earlier romance with a young [[African Americans|African-American]] actress, Jacky Jakes. He provides for the child's upbringing and education, becoming deeply attached to Georgy - which might create an impediment to his plans to embark on a political career in the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]].

'''Vladimir "Volodya" Peshkov'''- the son of Soviet General Grigori Peshkov and his wife Katerina, although Vladimir's biological father is Grigori's brother Lev (who left Russia before he was born).  An intelligence officer for the [[Red Army]], Vladimir is the handler for several Soviet [[espionage]] cells in Germany and the U.S., including that of Carla and Werner.  He fights in the Spanish Civil War and in the [[Battle of Moscow]], and later manages to obtain covert intelligence on U.S. development of the nuclear bomb.  Over time, Vladimir becomes increasingly uncertain in his devotion to communism as he witnesses the brutal and repressive measures taken by [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]].  Vladimir romances a beautiful physicist named Zoya, deeply involved in the [[Soviet atomic bomb project|Soviet Nuclear Program]], and later marries and starts a family with her after the war.

'''Woody Dewar''' - The son of U.S. Senator Gus Dewar and his wife Rosa, and a former friend of Daisy and Greg's.  Although drawn to politics like his father, Woody finds his true passion in news writing and photography.  He spends much of the story trying to win the heart of his longtime crush, Joanne Rouzrokh, and eventually does.  However, while they are in [[Hawaii]] celebrating their engagement, she is killed during the Japanese [[attack on Pearl Harbor]].  After his brother's death, Woody serves in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]] against the Germans, leading a [[Paratrooper|paratroop]] [[platoon]] on [[D-Day]].  He is sent home wounded, and eventually begins a relationship with Bella Hernandez, a young Hispanic woman he met while training in Britain.

'''Charles "Chuck" Dewar'''-  Woody's younger brother.  Chuck is a patriotic member of the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]], but struggles with his [[closeted homosexual]]ity (which he later revealed to Woody, and which his mother had already guessed).  Chuck is present during the attack on Pearl Harbor and later plays a small but vital role in the [[Battle of Midway]].  He is later killed by Japanese machine-gunfire during the landing at [[Bougainville Campaign|Bougainville]], trying to protect his lover Eddie Parry.

The novel also sets the stage for the decades to follow with reference to interracial and homosexual relationships, the creation of the [[United Nations]], the [[sexual revolution]], and the growth of the communist [[Eastern Bloc]]. As in the series' first volume, during the course of the book, most female characters get pregnant and have children, who would become protagonists of the next volume.

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