Did it keep me entertained for 30 hours? It did! For the most part. Is it entirely historically accurate? Probably not. No one writes a historical saga quite like Ken Follett. 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. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. 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. This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. Genres: historical fiction, hf - multi-period sagaĪlso by this author: Jackdaws, Hornet Flight, Whiteout Published by Viking on September 28, 2010
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