Fall of Giants - The Century Trilogy

The first in Ken Follett''s ground-breaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating 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. A WORLD IN CHAOS 1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger. A TERRIBLE WAR Billy''s family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London, their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar, an ambitious young aide to Woodrow Wilson, and two orphaned Russian brothers, the Peshkovs, whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war. A REVOLUTION THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When Russia convulses in bloody revolution and the Great War unfolds, the five families'' futures are entwined forever, love bringing them closer even as conflict takes them further apart. What seeds will be sown for further tragedy in the twentieth century and what role will each play in what is to come? Continue the captivating Century Trilogy with Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity .

Product details

• Authors: Ken Follett, Follett Ken
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.06.2024
• EAN: 9781035034246
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3503424-6
• No. of pages: 880
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 50 mm
• Series: The Century Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Wales, London, Greater London, Sagas, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, Russia, FICTION / Political, District of Columbia (Washington D.C.), FICTION / Thrillers / Political, FICTION / Historical / World War I, Narrative theme: Politics, Political / legal thriller, 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), Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)