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Fall of giants / Ken Follett.
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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. 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, the Peshkovs, whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war. 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? - author's website
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525951650
- Physical Description: xiv, 985 pages : colour map ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Dutton, [2010]
- Copyright: ©2010
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- Colour maps on endpapers.
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- Coal mines and mining > Wales > History > Fiction.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Elkford Public Library | FC FOL (Text) | 35170000314955 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Alexis Creek Branch | PB FOL (Text) | 33923004972893 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Beaver Valley Public Library | F FOL (Text) | 35144000039169 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Big Lake Branch | PB FOL (Text) | 33923004972919 | Historical | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bridge River Branch | AF FOL (Text) | 35180200133972 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Burns Lake Public Library | AF (Text) | 35198000469214 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC FOL (Text) | 35146001814326 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Chetwynd Public Library | Fic Fol (Mys) AP (Text) | 35222000827351 | Adult Paperback | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Christina Lake | FIC FOL (Text) | 35142002646882 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Creston Public Library | FIC FOL (Text)
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35140001201824 | Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2025-04-22 |
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Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for women's suffrage. By the best-selling author of The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End. 1 million first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for women's suffrage. By the best-selling author ofThe Pillars of the Earth and World Without End . - Baker & Taylor
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. - Baker & Taylor
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English and Welsh--as they move through the world-shaking dramas of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. - Penguin Putnam
Ken Follettâs magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for womenâs suffrage.Â
A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a manâs world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilsonâs 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.Â
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, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five familiesâand into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .Â
Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now.