Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy)

Ken Follett's magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. The story follows a thirteen-year-old Welsh boy, Billy Williams, who enters a man's world in the mining pits; Gus Dewar, an American law student who finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House; Ethel Williams, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts who takes a fateful step above her station; Lady Maud Fitzherbert, who crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy; and two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, whose plans to emigrate to America fall afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. The narrative moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, and from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, taking us into the inextricably entangled fates of these five families.

Store Availability