Fall of Giants

Összefoglaló

Ken Follett s magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War the Russian Revolution and the struggle for women s suffrage A thirteen year old Welsh boy enters a man s world in the mining pits An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson s White House 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 a German spy And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war conscription and revolution 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 Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families and into a century that we thought we knew but that now will never seem the same again The first novel in The Century Trilogy follows the fates of five interrelated familiesNAmerican German Russian English and WelshNas they move through the world shaking dramas of the First World War the Russian Revolution and the struggle for women s suffrage