lardy
15-07-15, 01:28
There's been a few 20thC history threads on here lately, mainly thanks to Sludge, which I've enjoyed reading. So on that theme, I'm recommending a novel based on real events.
Ken Follett's Century Trilogy, which follows five families (Welsh, English, American, German, Russian) and starts in the South Wales coal mines and goes on to cover WWI, suffragette movement, Russian Revolution, the rise of fascism, WWII, the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, US Civil Rights, all the way to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
It's excellent, long but readable and engaging, and there were a few times where I put it down to read up a bit more on Wikipedia (I know very little about the Russian Revolution for one).
Even better, Ken was born in Cardiff.
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Ken Follett's Century Trilogy, which follows five families (Welsh, English, American, German, Russian) and starts in the South Wales coal mines and goes on to cover WWI, suffragette movement, Russian Revolution, the rise of fascism, WWII, the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, US Civil Rights, all the way to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
It's excellent, long but readable and engaging, and there were a few times where I put it down to read up a bit more on Wikipedia (I know very little about the Russian Revolution for one).
Even better, Ken was born in Cardiff.
http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/thumbup.gif