Ken Follett

Fall of Giants

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Follett takes you to a time long past with brio and razor-sharp storytelling. An epic tale in which you will lose yourself.«

— The Denver Post on World Without End

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 as «well-researched, beautifully detailed [with] a terrifically compelling plot» (The Washington Post) and «wonderful history wrapped around a gripping story» (St. Louis Post- Dispatch)

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, 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.
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  • lorenamendoza2005shared an impression4 years ago
    🚀Unputdownable

    Leí esta historia a los 13 años, fue mi primer libro y la causa por la que actualmente sigo leyendo. Simplemente fantástico.

  • Anatoly Tarasenko (ksbw)shared an impression4 years ago
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    Слушал на русском через text-to-speach пока ехал на велосипеде из Мюнхена в Вюрцбург. Отличная книга. Мне ее посоветовал немец, который читал ее, пока был в годичной командировке в России

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Quotes

  • Eva Smedegaardhas quoted6 years ago
    As he avidly followed the diplomatic game being played on the chessboard of Europe, he scrutinized every move to assess its effect first on him and Maud, and only second on Germany and the world
  • Novita Rondonuwuhas quoted6 years ago
    The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can’t do anything unless we let them. Always remember that.”
  • Novita Rondonuwuhas quoted6 years ago
    Little things please little minds.”

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