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The first in Ken Folletts bestselling Century Trilogy- Fall of Giants 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 with 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....