Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a cole mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty. 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.
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. 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. Gus Dewar, and American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. 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. ".Fall of Giants is Follett's magnificent new historical epic. Illustrated with color maps on both the front and rear endpapers. Includes Dedication Cast of Characters Prologue Historical Characters and Acknowledgments. As new condition brown boards/black spine/gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. 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?and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. 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. An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits.
Staining at bottom of inner dust jacket, single light crease down spine, spine ends bruised.
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