Winter of the world

Finish reading that enormous book.  I enjoyed it but not as much as the first book of the trilogy" Fall the giants"
I liked the way the life of the characters are all related and the horrible effect of the war on all of them. It is  often so easy to see only one side of a conflict.

Even Ken Follet does not make any rapprochement, it is easy to see how all the things happening  in the book relate to our time  I like when Gus talk to his son Woody about the United Nations and says "You had been surprised. Look. More republicans are decent men who simply have a view of the world that is different from ours. But there is a hard core of fucking nut cases" very "a propos " is not it?
I like the way there are such a group of strong women characters and the way they are simple women but become strong because what happen in their life.

I love history and I like to learn about this epoch of history that really turn our world around . I learn so much about a time I live through as a child and I really did not know much about.

I did not like the different paragraphs and the different characters equally and I got a little tired at time about the details of the war and the spy world.

This enormous book did not seems so long after long it was very exciting all along.
And when it was finished I missed some of the characters . Just like saying good buy to friends!

I love the ending. "Most of all ,when she died ,she wanted her children to be able to say, as she said of her father, that her life had meant something, and that the world was a better place for it.

winter of the world

I am presently reading the "Winter of the world" from Ken Follet. I read the first book of the trilogy" Fall of Giants " a little while ago . I really liked it. I like historical novel and this one his about a period of time who shaped my life and of which I know very little, making it very interesting to me. I started reading the book 2 days ago and I have a bad time keeping away from it.