TY  - BOOK
AU  - Follett,Ken
TI  - Fall of giants
T2  - Century trilogy
SN  - 0230710077
U1  - 823/.914 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Macmillan
KW  - Twentieth century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Families
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - George V, 1910-1936
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 1918-1945
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Revolution, 1917-1921
KW  - United States
KW  - 1913-1921
KW  - Germany
KW  - Epic fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Also published: London : Pan, 2011
N2  - This is 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
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