I think to appreciate Winter of the World fully you would need to have read Fall of Giants. The wait was worth it and I needn’t have worried. Beginning in the early years of the 20th century in the dark, dirty and dangerous coal mines of Wales, radiating out through a web of interconnected families to tell the story of the Red Revolution in Russia, the First World War and the Depression in the United States, it set a standard that left me craving its follow up Winter of the World while fearing that it could not live up to its predecessor. Fall of Giants, published 2010, has a power that gripped me from the very first page.
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