Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. 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.īerlin in 1933 is in upheaval. President Woodrow Wilson and with two orphaned Russian brothers whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war conscription and revolution. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich a spy at the German Embassy in London. The Williams a Welsh coal-mining family is linked romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts aristocratic coal-mine owners. The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy Fall of Giants 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.
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