comment on setting

Ken Follett's novel, "Winter of the World", deals with the 1930s and 1940s in the world, and moves through World War II. Because of this, much of the novel occurs in Europe, especially in Western Europe, where much of the action of World War II takes place. Much attention is also devoted to the usually left-out Pacific Theater of War, and time is also spent in Moscow, the heart of the Soviet world. Given the events of the novel, the locations Follett chooses to focus on are fitting, instrumental, and critical to the plot of the novel.