As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. 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. 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. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits.Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House.two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution.Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she 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 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 struggle for women's suffrage. Louis Post- Dispatch )įall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics as 'well-researched, beautifully detailed a terrifically compelling plot' ( The Washington Post ) and 'wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story' ( St.

An epic tale in which you will lose yourself.' Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling.

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