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Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a workof grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers andacclaimed by critics. Fall of Giants is his magnificent newhistorical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it followsthe fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian,English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas ofthe First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle forwomen's suffrage.

Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welshmining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love,finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...twoorphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark onradically different paths half a world apart when their plan toemigrate to America falls afoul of war, con*ion, andrevolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for thearistocratic Fitzherberts, takes a fateful step above her station,while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbiddenterritory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy atthe German embassy in London...

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. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new
historical epic. 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. 
 
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, con*ion, 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... 
 
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 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. As always with Ken Follett, the
historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the
action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It
is destined to be a new classic. 
 
In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of
the same families will travel through the great events of the rest
of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century
itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us
into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same
again.

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