Carter’s Back Channel), so Cuban Missile Crisis-y type things were all fresh in my mind.īut, the predominantly American events felt a bit surface… side of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Stephen L. This was all especially timely given I had recently read an excellent historical fiction about the U.S. I also enjoyed learning about the Cuban Missile Crisis from the Russian perspective and the internal politics of the Kremlin leadership. This quote sums up the situation pretty nicely: Though they might only live two miles apart, they literally had no contact with each other for decades other than letters that were censored by the Stasi (the East German secret police). I loved reading about life behind the Berlin Wall and how families were torn apart because they were split between the East and West sides. My favorite parts of Edge of Eternity were those I was least familiar with… Even though years have passed since I read Fall of Giants, I can still remember how WWI started (and I never remembered stuff like this years after I learned about it in school)! Follett’s writing and storytelling is so readable that you forget you’re actually learning something about world events.
…and this is one of my favorite things about this trilogy. And, I did love a lot of Edge of Eternity, but it ended up being my least favorite of the three books. This was actually the installment I thought I would like the most, as I’ve always been fascinated with the Cold War and lived through some of the other events Follett covers. My Thoughts on Edge of Eternity:Īs an avid fan of the first two installments of this trilogy ( Fall of Giants covering WWI and Winter of the World covering WWII), I was anxiously awaiting publication of Edge of Eternity. Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, and the rock n roll and hippie movements. In the final installment of Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy, five families of different nationalities (American, Russian, German, Welsh, and British) experience the rise of Communism and the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S.
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