Narrated by: John Lee
The Century Trilogy, Book 1

Fall of Giants is Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic.
The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five
interrelated families.American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh.
as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War,
the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh
mining pits.. Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love,
finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House..
Two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on
radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to
emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution..
Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts,
takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert
herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love
with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London..

These characters and many others find their lives inextricably
entangled as, in a saga 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.
As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly
researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich
in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.

In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of
the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of
the 20th century, changing themselves.and the century itself. With
passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we
thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.

Exclusive interview: Ken Follett and John Lee Talk about Fall of
Giants.

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