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The first in Ken Follett's breathtaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating 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.
A World in Chaos 1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger.
A Terrible War Billy’s family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London, their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar, an ambitious young aide to Woodrow Wilson, and two orphaned Russian brothers whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war.
A Revolution That Will Change Everything When Russia convulses in bloody revolution and the Great War unfolds, the five families’ futures are entwined forever, love bringing them closer even as conflict takes them further apart. What seeds will be sown for further tragedy in the twentieth century and what role will each play in what is to come?
Continue the captivating Century Trilogy with Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity.
© 2011 Macmillan Digital Audio (Luisterboek): 9780230756663
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 5 augustus 2011
4.6
1 of 6
Romans literatuur
The first in Ken Follett's breathtaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating 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.
A World in Chaos 1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger.
A Terrible War Billy’s family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London, their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar, an ambitious young aide to Woodrow Wilson, and two orphaned Russian brothers whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war.
A Revolution That Will Change Everything When Russia convulses in bloody revolution and the Great War unfolds, the five families’ futures are entwined forever, love bringing them closer even as conflict takes them further apart. What seeds will be sown for further tragedy in the twentieth century and what role will each play in what is to come?
Continue the captivating Century Trilogy with Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity.
© 2011 Macmillan Digital Audio (Luisterboek): 9780230756663
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 5 augustus 2011
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Tessa
21 okt 2020
Great read, puts today’s life in perspective
Diederik
3 jan 2020
Extraordinary!
Bertie
9 jun 2020
The great accents are increasing the impact op the story
Michiel
13 mei 2020
Knap hoor, de geschiedenis van de vrouwen- en arbeidersemancipatie, de hele Eerste Wereldoorlog, verweving van onder- en bovenwereld in VS, internationale diplomatie én de Russische Revolutie in één boek laten beleven door een cast van behoorlijk geloofwaardige personages met elk een eigen perspectief op de oorlog waaraan alle partijen schuldig waren. De sex wordt na de zoveelste gewillige ontmaagding een beetje saai. Maar fijn dat er twee krachtige vrouwenrollen zijn die meer belichamen dan de love interest. De verhaallijnen voor de volgende delen zijn al uitgezet.
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