Ken Follett talks about his new novel, Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy, the follow-up to bestseller Fall of Giants. It picks up where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the dramas of World War II, and into the atomic age.
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On Hitler was not smart to take on the U.S because it was so powerful. At the outset of WWII the United States' military ranked 19th in the world; hence, the massive industrialization that was WWII in the US. And FDR had to overcome the massive anti-interventionist sentiments throughout American society, from elected officials and on.
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