![]() Follett currently lives in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Struggles of WWII The story opens in 1940, as you meet a German spy named Henry Faber. He is best known for the Kingsbridge series, the Century trilogy, and Eye of the Needle. If you plan to read Follett’s novels in order, you should know that this is the book to start your journey. Ken Follett is the author of more than 30 books. It is through each character that we are given a new perspective to the seismic shifts that shook the world in nineteenth-century Europe. Now, with this electrifying addition to the Kingsbridge series we are plunged into the battlefield between compassion and greed, love and hate, progress and tradition. Over thirty years ago, Ken Follett published his most popular novel, The Pillars of the Earth. As institutions are challenged and toppled in unprecedented fashion, ripples of change ricochet through our characters’ lives as they are left to reckon with the future and a world they must rebuild from the ashes of war. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother’s husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business one man ruthlessly protects his wealth no matter the cost, all the while war cries are heard from France, as Napoleon sets forth a violent master plan to become emperor of the world. ![]() ![]() The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. ![]()
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