Ken Follett's second book in his massive Century Trilogy is 960 pages long.
It will take you more than a few cool autumn nights to finish, but it's a good investment in time.
The reader is once again transported, this time back to the 1930s and '40s, an era ripe for the picking. There's the burning of the Reichstag and the chilling rise of Adolf Hitler; there's unrest in London and civil war in Spain; there's Pearl Harbor, the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Moscow.
Winter of the World is told through the eyes of five inter-related families -- American, German, Russian, English, Welsh -- characters who were introduced in Follett's Fall of Giants, the first novel in the trilogy. Follett gives us a history lesson through the lives of both historic figures and his fictional families.