Winter of the World: The Century Trilogy, Book 2
by Ken Follett, Audiobook narrated by John Lee, 2012, Penguin Audio
I have continued on my quest to listen to all three books in this trilogy. I am again giving this book a three-star rating although I think it’s a bit better than the first book of the trilogy, World Without End. This book was about World War II and various families who were impacted by the war whereas the prior book was primarily about World War I. Perhaps the immediacy of the subject made it a bit better than the first.
I often think of Herman Wouk’s Winds of War and War and Remembrance when I read these books as they are written with the same basic formula: the war, the families, and how they survived through the war. Wouk’s works are definitely a better effort as they dealt with the internment in concentration camps of some of the family members. I could feel the stress and impending doom much more in his books than Follett’s. Follett also throws in a few sex scenes to titillate his readers while Wouk’s were a bit more prudish.
While I can’t really rave about these, they aren’t bad listening, and, I as mentioned, they do refresh the history for me.
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