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de FOLLETT,KEN
de FOLLETT,KEN
This is a huge novel that follows five families through theworld-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution,and the struggle for votes for women. It is 1911. The Coronation Dayof King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linkedby romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mineowners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, aspy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled withthat of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson andto two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to Americafall foul of war, conscription and revolution. In a plot of unfoldingdrama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly fromWashington to St Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mineto the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.
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