Fall of Giants (Audio book) - The Century Trilogy - Abridged 12 CDs

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. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and with two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. 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.

Summary

An epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. Fall of Giants precedes Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity in the bestselling Century Trilogy.

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'An epic saga on a grand scale. Spiked with romance and intrigue . . . This involving historical saga is the perfect read for long winter evenings' Choice

Product details

• Authors: Ken Follett, Dan Stevens
• Assisted by: Dan Stevens (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 28.09.2010
• EAN: 9780230745094
• ISBN: 978-0-230-74509-4
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 132 mm x 27 mm
• Series: The Century; Macmillan Audio Books; The Century Trilogy; Die Jahrhundert-Saga; Die Jahrhundert-Trilogie; The Century Trilogy; Macmillan Audio Books; Macmillan Digital Audio; Century; Die Jahrhundert-Trilogie; Die Jahrhundert-Trilogie / The Century Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Russland, Wales, UdSSR, Sowjetunion, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik, Historischer Roman, 1910 bis 1919 n. Chr., London, Greater London, Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Politik, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Russia, Politthriller/Justizthriller, District of Columbia (Washington D.C.), Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Weltkrieg 1914/18 / Roman, Erzählung, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Hörbuch, Hörbuch / Englisch, London / Roman, Erzählung, Hörbuch / Roman, Erzählung, USA / Roman, Erzählung, Russland / Roman, Erzählung, England / Roman, Erzählung, Humor, Wales / Roman, Erzählung, Thriller / suspense, political, Washington, D.C., Narrative theme: Politics, c 1910 to c 1919, First World War fiction, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, District Of Columbia (Washington, Dc), Historical / General, Thrillers / Political