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This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. This 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.
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The Century Trilogy. Fall of Giants, Ken Follett
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- Année de publication
- 2010
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Ken Follett
- Éditeur
- Dutton
- Publié
- 2010
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 985
- ISBN10
- 0525951652
- ISBN13
- 9780525951650
- Séries
- Trilogie du siècle
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Romans historiques, Amour, Politique, Suspense, Prose de guerre, Guerres, France, États-Unis, Allemagne, Relations, Russie, Angleterre, Secrets, Littérature anglaise, Amérique, Première Guerre mondiale (1914–1918), Aristocratie, noblesse, Sagas, Trilogie, Révolution, Guerre mondiale
- Première publication
- 2010
- Titre original
- Fall of Giants
- Évaluation
- 4,3 sur 5
- Description
- This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. This 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.