Name: Kinder der Freiheit
ISBN: 9783785725108

Ken Follett

Der Krieg ist zu Ende, doch die Welt wird noch lange nicht zur Ruhe kommen: mitten in Berlin wird eine Mauer errichtet, die Ost und West trennt und das Leben von Millionen Familien zerstört, während die USA und die Sowjetunion die Welt an den Rand der nuklearen Katastrophe führen.

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Kinder der Freiheit

Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution--and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. . . . George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. . . . Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. . . . Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw--and into history. Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now.

Edge of Eternity

For anyone who thought History was a boring subject in school, and struggles with following politics in our modern Era- this series will give you a deep dive on everything you need to know. Ken Follett is a very detailed researcher and always manages to capture my attention even in such long books

Emma Lechner

Simon Harding

Outstanding.

Not just this book, the other two in the series too. I've read them all, and I'd read more too- we just need a little more history to be created before Follett can work his magic again. I can see it now- one of his characters a North Korean aid to the Kim family, another the hairdresser of a US president....

I digress. The idea of planting fictional characters throughout the key events of the 20th century was little short of genius, and Follett pulled it off with complete mastery. I've said it in a previous review, but if you ever want to get your kids into modern history, throw out the text books. Burn them. Rip the pages from them and smoke them if you must. Because this is the history of the future. Factual, researched to the finest detail, yet told through the lives of people Follett has placed in strategic locations. People so engaging that you'll be willing history to be kind to them.

When I studied 20th century history at school, the dull texts ruined it for me for good. If I'd had Edge of Eternity, Winter of the World and Fall of Giants to crib from, by now I'd be a professor at Oxford.

It is absolutely astonishing what Follett has achieved with his century trilogy. I can say no more.

Edge of eternity

Jonathan Tysick

An entertaining and informative conclusion to Follett's ambitious trilogy. However, the characters seemed a bit more stereotypical (than the previous two books), there were a lot of unnecessary sex scenes and Follett's political views came through a bit more than the previous volumes.

Leonie

Leider definitiv der schwächste Teil der Trilogie. Während der Anfang noch gewohnt detail- und charakterverliebt auftrumpft, flacht es zum Ende hin immer mehr ab und wirkt teils als hätte Follett bemerkt, dass er nicht mehr allzu viele Seiten füllen darf. Zum Ende hin wirkt die sonst so fein ausgearbeitete Geschichte mit Familien-Vernestelungen, die einem zumeist erst in den letzten Kapiteln im vollen Umfang klar werden, flach und als hätte er schnell fertig werden wollen. Das so erhoffte verdiente Finale der Trilogie bleibt aus.
Auch wenn Sturz der Titanen und Winter der Welt deutlich stärker waren, ist auch Kinder der Freiheit definitiv noch, außerhalb der Trilogie betrachtet, eines der besseren Bücher. Wer Folletts Art der Charakterverknüpfung und seinen Schreibstil mag, der wird auch hieran Freude finden.

Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. . . . George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. . . . Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. . . . Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history. Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now.

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