Ken Follett: Fall of Giants
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- Materiaali: Sidottu
- Kustantaja: Dutton Books
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780525951650
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Ken Follett s magnificent new historical epic beginsas five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man s world in the mining pits […] . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson s 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. 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 Giantstakes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again […] . '