Bibliograph

Fall of giants, first in the Century trilogy, by Ken Follett

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Fall of giants, first in the Century trilogy, by Ken Follett

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Fall of giants

Oclc number

462899076

Responsibility statement

by Ken Follett

Series statement

Century trilogy, bk. 1

Sub title

first in the Century trilogy

Summary

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, 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..

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