Fall of Giants

<b>Ken Follett&#146;s magnificent historical epic begins&#160;as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War the Russian Revolution and the struggle for women&#146;s suffrage.</b> <br><br>A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man&#146;s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson&#146;s White House. . . . 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 a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war conscription and revolution.&#160;<br><br>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 <i>Fall of Giants</i> takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families&#151;and into a century that we thought we knew but that now will never seem the same again. . . .