![]() ![]() ![]() In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. President Woodrow Wilson and with two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated familiesAmerican, German, Russian, English, and Welshas they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for womens suffrage. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. Listen to an extract from the unabridged audiobook of Fall of Giants by Ken Follett, read by John Lee.Īn epic of love, hatred, war and revolution ![]()
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