veronica_em shared a tip "My favorite historical fiction series of all time. This second installment covers WWII while the first covers WWI and the third the Cold War. The books follow the same families over three generations. It felt like I knew the the characters. It was really rewarding to follow the descendants through the decades, all set against a backdrop of very well written history."

lexy_wright shared a tip "Good if you want to read up on some WWII history without picking up a textbook. More exciting than the first installment. However I will say that Follet missed some opportunities to really delve into the atrocities of the Nazis, and failed to capture the hate and blame the German people experienced after the war by some factions following the revelation of the death camps. One example is we briefly get to see a killing squad, but we don’t visit Auschwitz (even though one character maywent there)."