What storyteller that Follett! He manages to we embark on romantic stories while giving us a well documented geopolitical courses and exciting ... Mr. Hat and especially ... thank you for these wonderful hours spent reading you! We travel the beginnings e Cold War to the election of Obama to the US for the USSR funds via Berlin, we live inside the history, through the characters. Nearly a million words for this trilogy and not a moment when I wanted to stop ... A trilogy absolutely read if you want to understand the elements that made war 14-18, and 40-45 Cold War (the latter book) while having fun (the books really read like novels) ... wonders of historical novels.