Fall of Giants (Hardback)
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|Short Description for Fall of Giants A 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. It 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.
Full description- Publisher: MACMILLAN
- Published: 28 September 2010
- Format: Hardback 640 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780230749375 ISBN 10: 0230749372
- Sales rank: 96,209
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Full description for Fall of Giants
This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. It 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. It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. 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.
