Winter of the World

Beginning with the rise of the Third Reich and continuing through the Spanish Civil War, the great dramas of World War II, and ending with the detonation of the American and Soviet atomic bombs, Winter of the World picks up exactly where the first book left off, with its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—entering a period of immense social, political, and economic turmoil.

German-English mother Carla von Ulrich's life is swept away by the Nazi wave until she does a heartbreakingly brave thing. It's... With a secret of their own, American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar follow different routes to historic occasions, one in Washington and the other deep in the Pacific's terrible jungles. It's... In the heat of the Spanish Civil War, English student Lloyd Williams learns that he must oppose Communism with the same ferocity as he does Fascism. It's... While her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will effect not just this war but the one to come, Daisy Peshkov, an ambitious American social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set. Her life is transformed by the conflict not once, but twice.

These people' lives become intricately linked to many others' as their experiences shed light on the century's major cataclysms. Their lives blend together, dragging the reader into scenarios that become more and more intricate, from the drawing rooms of the wealthy to the blood and smoke of combat.