Edge of Eternity: Ken Follett (The Century Trilogy, 3)

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Today’s generation has no clue of the iron curtain , the charm of hard to get Coca Cola , the ice cream sodas the allure of 24/7 tv that only existed in some parts of the world…. Ken Follett again tackles great chucks of history in Edge of Eternity, the final installment in his Century Trilogy, which covers 1961 through 1989, and includes such epic events as Vietnam, Kennedy’s assassination, the Civil Rights movement, the Cold War and the fall of Communism. As Bernd detailed the emergency arrangements, Rebecca wondered when the school would get its new head. Upon learning this, Rebecca sneaks across the wall with Bernd Held, a coworker at school whom she later marries.

A good ending to the three-book saga, but the worst of the three books, the Edge of Eternity continues the story of The rise and fall of the Soviet Union, tying with it the American civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, and the effects of rock and roll on swaying public opinion on politics. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. If you lean liberal and need to have your fantasy world upheld by books where liberals can do no wrong and conservatives can do nothing but, this is definitely the book for you.Who were the good guys and the bad guys, which are clearer in retrospect than they were in real time. It was certainly satisfying finishing this trilogy, but I am still looking forward to his next book!

From the hall she could see, through the open door of the front room, her mother deep in conversation with Heinrich von Kessel, who had been a Social Democrat city councilor with her after the war. It brought back so many life moments in my own story that it made me put into perspective my view of history.

He’s masterly at juggling complex plot lines with a mix of real world leaders and fictional characters who are spread throughout Eastern and Western Europe and the United States. In the course of the book's plot, most British characters move to the United States and become involved in its politics, rather than the British ones. Dewar plays an important role in Nixon's illegal surveillance and espionage tactics, culminating in the 1972 burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex. His celebrated PILLARS OF THE EARTH was voted into the top 100 of Britain's best-loved books in the BBC's the Big Read and the sequel, WORLD WITHOUT END, was published to critical acclaim.

I realized pretty early on that at this point in the story, nearly all the characters are related by either blood or marriage, despite being on 3 different continents.I find it disheartening that he refuses to acknowledge the non-alignment movement that was taking shape in India around the 60s. It starts off very strongly and I had hoped it would be as enjoyable at the first two, but the enjoyment I got from the middle and end portions of the book came more from Follett's obvious bias and the reverse-Jamie Lannister character arcs of the POV characters. Dmitri Dvorkin, a young apparatchik in the USSR working for Nikita Khrushchev as an aide during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Subsequently, he worked for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director. I'll put another spoiler tag below and then discuss it, because it's the funniest, most ironic bit for me.

With the hand of a master, he brings us into a world we thought we knew but now will never seem the same again.He lives in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, with his wife Barbara, the former Labour Member of Parliament for Stevenage.