I am so close to finishing Winter of the World by Ken Foullet. Over the long weekend I read for an hour + everyday, and got through almost 300 pages. I am currently only 20 pages from the end of the book. I wonder how Foullet will wrap up the book, because I know that the book ends in the year 1949 and currently I'm in 1947, so I am interested in seeing how he writes two years in twenty pages. I have noticed that the years are explored in various detail through this book. For example the year 1943 was in total about 300 pages while 1948-1949 will only be twenty pages or less. Foullet titles the different chapters the different times of year, and what year it is, which is very helpful when trying to figure out the timeline of the war. I also think that how Foullet places characters in every aspect of the war is really cool, because we can see the fighting as well as other really important factors. For example, the character Greg Peshkov lives in Washington D.C., so we can see some of the political moves of the Unites States, as well as majored in physics and works on the Manhattan Project. Greg's half brother (though they think they are cousins and have never met), Volodya Peshkov lives in Russia and in a major and spy trainer for Berlin spies. He is married to Zoya who is a Russian physicist and works on the nuclear bomb in Russian. It is interesting to see the race for nuclear power play out between the two countries, and I think that the 3rd book will most likely revolve around that and the cold war. I have noticed that there is a lot less war scenes in this book then in the last one. There is more scenes of living though the war in every country then fighting. For example one of the more prominent characters, Daisy Peshkov (half sister of Greg and Volodya), was born in Buffalo, New York but lives in England. Almost every scene she narrates is about driving the ambulance in the Blitz (her part time job) or her love life with her husband (Boy Fitzherbert, son, and heir, of the Earl of Arberowen) and his half brother, Lloyd Williams (though they don't know they are half brothers, also son of the Earl Fitzherbert). Another prominent character Carla von Ulrich (whose mother used to work with the mother of Lloyd Williams) describes the life in Nazi Germany. We see the war through Nazi eyes with her brother Erik, who is a doctor in training on the front line. Carla also depicts life as a spy, as she and her boyfriend are spy for Russia (who are recruited by Volodya).