Perhaps it was a German too close

The third part of the saga of Ken Follet century treated the period from the 60s to the late 80s. Again, there are insights into the life he ind time in the United States, the Soviet Union and the divided Germany and the UK, the latter rather remains in the background, because the significant events in world history was happening in the first three countries. Topics include racial issues in the United States. Martin Luther King and the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War, the construction of the wall, political developments in the Eastern Bloc and restricted press freedom in the Soviet Union with a view to the Siberian prison camp.

However, missing in Edge of Eternity of insight into the company from different social classes, what fascinated me at the books since Follett Pillars of the Earth and what Follett had pulled even in the first two parts of the trilogy.
All main characters - obviously great-grandson of the protagonist in Volume 1 - but make great careers. As a consultant, high-ranking politicians or journalists in East and West, the main characters are live performances at many major events - in the style Follets. Others experience the wild 60s as a pop star or actor celebrated. This, however, the events are portrayed exclusively of extremely aloof perspective. Where is the common people as the maid Welsh or German? Where are the representatives of the German, Russian and American working class? The protagonists of these layers from the first two parts and their grandchildren have made career and Follet has failed to build new protagonists of the common people or to become entangled in the story. Too bad, because this is a very big shortcoming in this book.
By contrast, Ken Follett remains faithful in his writing style and tells lively and rousing different events in history firsthand. So the reader in the Martin Luther King movement may well plunge as in the situation of Russian journalists with too much slope to the truth (Russian Pravda) or political persecution by the Stasi in East Germany.
Since I myself come from the described time and some have experienced different world, I had met my own problem with Follett's view and am reading again and again to certain limits. Younger readers from other countries can learn a lot from the American, German-German and Russian history. Poetic liberties and speculation must be held in this novel, in my opinion, because it is not a history book but a novel. But since the book in relation to the first two parts, I can give only three star drops significantly.