"Follows the fortunes of five intertwined families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they make their way through the twentieth century. This finale covers one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, encompassing civil rights, assassinations, Vietnam, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution-and rock and roll. Follett's characters find their lives inextricably entangled...