Throughout these books, Follett has followed the fortunes of five intertwined fa
milies American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh as they make their way thro
ugh the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of a
ll: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through th
e 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam
to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolut
ion and rock and roll.
