Ken Follett�� 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�� suffrage.
A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man�� world in the mining pits.�再n American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson�� 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.�再nd 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��nd into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again.��/div>
A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man�� world in the mining pits.�再n American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson�� 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.�再nd 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��nd into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again.��/div>