ISBN: 9780451468222 - winter of the world: book two of the century trilogy (40 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Los hijos de las cinco familias protagonistas de La ca da de los gigantes forjar n su destino en los a os turbulentos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la guerra civil espa ola, el bombardeo de Pearl Harbor y la era de la bomba at mica.Segundo volumen de la trilog a «The Century En el a o 1933, Berl n es un foco de agitaci n pol tica y social. Lady Maud, ahora la esposa de Walter von Ulrich y madre de dos hijos, publica en una revista semanal art culos que ridiculizan al Partido Nazi, mientras que Walter manifiesta su oposici n en el Parlamento. Sin embargo, parece que nada podr frenar el poder ascendente del canciller Adolf Hitler. Cuando Ethel Williams y su hijo Lloyd visitan a la familia von Ulrich, todos ser n testigos de la tiran a y la represi n de la nueva Alemania.El dominio del Tercer Reich se extender hasta Francia y m s all de la frontera rusa. Mientras, en Inglaterra, Lloyd Williams, activista pol tico como su madre, luchar en el ej rcito brit nico para intentar frenar el avance de los nazis y se alistar en las brigadas internacionales durante la guerra civil espa ola. Participar en la ofensiva de Zaragoza y la batalla de Belchite.En Ty Gwyn, la mansi n familia de los Fitzherbert en Gales, se alojar n los oficiales brit nicos y, durante su estancia, el teniente Lloyd Williams se sentir atra do por la mujer de Boy Fitzherbert, la rica heredera americana Daisy Peshkov.«La trilog a The Century es la historia de mis abuelos y de los vuestros, de nuestros padres y de nuestras propias vidas. De alguna forma es la historia de todos nosotros. .- Ken Follett ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages. --The Huffington PostPicking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until daring to commit a deed of great courage and heartbreak . . . . American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific . . . . English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism . . . . Daisy Peshkov, a driven social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set until war transforms her life, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war but also the war to come.…

Zustand: Fair. Los hijos de las cinco familias protagonistas de La ca da de los gigantes forjar n su destino en los a os turbulentos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la guerra civil espa ola, el bombardeo de Pearl Harbor y la era de la bomba at mica.Segundo volumen de la trilog a «The Century En el a o 1933, Berl n es un foco de agitaci n pol tica y social. Lady Maud, ahora la esposa de Walter von Ulrich y madre de dos hijos, publica en una revista semanal art culos que ridiculizan al Partido Nazi, mientras que Walter manifiesta su oposici n en el Parlamento. Sin embargo, parece que nada podr frenar el poder ascendente del canciller Adolf Hitler. Cuando Ethel Williams y su hijo Lloyd visitan a la familia von Ulrich, todos ser n testigos de la tiran a y la represi n de la nueva Alemania.El dominio del Tercer Reich se extender hasta Francia y m s all de la frontera rusa. Mientras, en Inglaterra, Lloyd Williams, activista pol tico como su madre, luchar en el ej rcito brit nico para intentar frenar el avance de los nazis y se alistar en las brigadas internacionales durante la guerra civil espa ola. Participar en la ofensiva de Zaragoza y la batalla de Belchite.En Ty Gwyn, la mansi n familia de los Fitzherbert en Gales, se alojar n los oficiales brit nicos y, durante su estancia, el teniente Lloyd Williams se sentir atra do por la mujer de Boy Fitzherbert, la rica heredera americana Daisy Peshkov.«La trilog a The Century es la historia de mis abuelos y de los vuestros, de nuestros padres y de nuestras propias vidas. De alguna forma es la historia de todos nosotros. .- Ken Follett ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there was a thousand more pages. --The Huffington PostPicking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the great dramas of World War II, and into the beginning of the long Cold War. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until daring to commit a deed of great courage and heartbreak . . . . American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific . . . . English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism . . . . Daisy Peshkov, a driven social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set until war transforms her life, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war but also the war to come.…

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