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Fall of Giants is Ken Follett's wonderful new historical epic. The first novel inside the Century Trilogy, it uses the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the have difficulty for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits.... Gus Dewar, an American legislation student declined in love, sees a unusual new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House.... Two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different pathways half of a world aside when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of warfare, conscription, and revolution.... Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, requires a fateful step above her train station, while Sweetheart Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses profound into forbidden place when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London.... These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the mud and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of your palace, from the corridors of capacity to the bedrooms of the mighty. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the individuals rich in nuance and feeling. It really is destined to be a new classic. In future volumes from the Century Trilogy, following generations of the same young families will travel through the fantastic events of the rest of the 20th century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With love and the hand of a get good at, Follett brings us into a world we thought we understood, but now will not ever appear the same again.
