Name: Fall of Giants (Century Trilogy)
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Author: Ken Follett
ISBN: 9780451232588

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Ken Follett

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Riverhead Books

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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 familiesAmerican, German, Russian, English, and Welshas 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, conscription, 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.

Ken Follett

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Ken Follett is one of the most beloved and admired authors by readers around the world, and the sales of his thirty-six books exceed one hundred and eighty-eight million copies. His first bestseller was Eye of the Needle (originally titled Storm Island), a spy thriller set during World War II. In 1989, he published The Pillars of the Earth, which reached number one on bestseller lists in many countries and has become his most popular novel. Its sequels, World Without End and A Column of Fire, and the prequel, The Evening and the Morning, were also great successes, and the saga as a whole has sold over fifty million copies worldwide. Follett lives in Hertfordshire with his wife, Barbara. Together they have five children, six grandchildren, and three Labrador dogs.

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Valentina Pinilla Monday, April 12, 2021
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Is a excellent book. I bought it for improve my English but the story caught me is really amazing story 10/10
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