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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy)

Title: Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy)
Author: Ken Follett
Year First Published: 2010
Page Count: 985
Synopsis: Ken Follett's World Without End was a global phenomenon, a work of grand historical sweep, beloved by millions of readers and acclaimed by critics. Fall of Giants is his magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families-American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits...Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House...two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Peshkov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution...Billy's sister, Ethel, 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 Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London...

These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as, in a saga 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. As always with Ken Follett, the historical background is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. It is destined to be a new classic.

In future volumes of The Century Trilogy, subsequent generations of the same families will travel through the great events of the rest of the twentieth century, changing themselves-and the century itself. With passion and the hand of a master, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.

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Profanity Violence Sexual Content
Frequent use of all profanity Graphic war violence. Graphic and overt sexual content. Frequent throughout the entire book.
Characterization Plot Overall Rating
I really like the character development and the writing style. Great insights into the events leading up to the first great war. Good story which is well written and flows nicely between characters.
I would have enjoyed this book much more had it not been so full of sexual content Some mention may have been necessary to parts of the plot but the frequency and graphic descriptions were really over the top.


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Focus Political/Espionage Main Character Academic/Professional
Focus Legal/Crime Main Character Royalty
Focus Political Quest Main Character Commoner
Focus Military/War Number of pages 600-700
Focus Coming of Age Readability Moderate
Focus Friends Religion General
Focus Murder Setting Europe
Main Character Male Setting North America
Main Character Female Setting Earth Based
Main Character Child Time Period World War I
Main Character Adult Time Period Historical
Main Character Group Type Traditional Historical Fiction
Main Character Police

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