![]() ![]() While this tome doesn't achieve the emotional depth of the best historicals, it is a remarkable and wonderfully readable synthesis of fact and fiction. Ingenious plotting allows Follett to explore such salient developments of the era as coal mine safety in Wales, women's suffrage, the diplomatic blundering that led to war, the horrors of trench warfare, and the triumph of the Bolsheviks. The first in Ken Folletts bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of. From a huge cast, eight figures emerge to play multiple roles that illustrate and often illuminate the major events, trends, and issues of the years leading up to and immediately beyond WWI: American diplomat Gus Dewar Earl Fitzherbert, a wealthy Englishman Fitz's sister, Lady Maud German military attaché Walter von Ulrich Russian brothers Grigori and Lev Peshkov Welsh collier Billy Williams and his sister, Ethel, whom Fitz hires as a housemaid. This first in a century-spanning trilogy from bestseller Follett (Eye of the Needle) makes effective and economical use of its lead characters, despite its scope and bulk. ![]()
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