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Fall of giants / Ken Follett.

Follett, Ken, (author.).

Summary:

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780525951650
  • Physical Description: xiv, 985 pages : colour map ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Dutton, [2010]

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Colour maps on endpapers.

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Subject: 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
Coal mines and mining > Wales > History > Fiction.
Great Britain > History > George V, 1910-1936 > Fiction.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 1918-1945 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Epic fiction.
Domestic fiction.

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  • 4 of 4 copies available at South Central Regional Library. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Altona Library.

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Altona Library F Fol v.1 (Text) 35864000914786 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

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