Author: Ken Follett Publisher: Penguin, 2012 Pages: 940 Price: Rs399 Ken Follett is a master of epic tales. He has woven mesmerising stories with wide arrays of memorable characters who are the warp and weft of the fabric of history. They are characters who either shape the history or are shaped by it. They are masters or victims. But they are never puppets dangling from the mechanical fingers of some robotic history. They are the normal human beings, partly good and partly evil, some strong and others weak, some of whom dare while others cower. Winter of the World differs from those novels, however. Its characters are more puppets dangling from the warp and weft of history. The real persons who shape and manipulate the history are Hitler and Stalin. Yet they hardly appear in the novel; they work like invisible gods through their agents, the Gestapo and the NKVD, both of which are ruthless in hunting down perceived enemies. The plot of the nov
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