Fall of Giants
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It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution.
Five families, American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh, move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. The plot contains profanity, graphic sexual situations, and violence. Book #1
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3 primary books#1 in The Century Trilogy
The Century Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Ken Follett.
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I???ll admit that I was sceptical, I was not a fan of the Pillars of the Earth. This was more sweeping in scope, more majestic and human in its drama, and engrossing and epic in every way. I???ve already got book 2 in the series on my nightstand
It took me about a hundred pages to get into this book, but then I was hooked. There was quite a bit of set up for each of the characters. I was throughly sucked into the story after the set up was complete. I didn't enjoy it quite as much as Pillars of the Earth, but it was definitely a good read.
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