Book description
A huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking
dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle
for votes for women.
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.
In a plot 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. Ken Follett was
twenty-seven when he wrote EYE OF THE NEEDLE, an award-winning thriller
that became an international bestseller. After writing several more
successful thrillers he surprised everyone with THE PILLARS OF THE
EARTH, about the building of a cathedral in the Middle Ages, which
continues to captivate millions of readers all over the world. His last
book was the long-awaited sequel, WORLD WITHOUT END, a number one
bestseller in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain
and France.
