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Fall of Giants
By: Ken FollettImprint: Pan Books
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Reader Review: A good way to explore history. The author paints a vast drama on a large canvas covering, Europe, Asia and North America. The book describes the events leading up to the First World War the events of the war and the subsequent settlement, through the eyes of five diverse families, whose lives become intertwined over time. If you are a fan of Mitchner then this book is probably for you. I found the history to be good but like Mitchner, I thought it suffered from too many cut and paste characterizations. It was as if each character was drawn to represent one element of behavior. This one is pious, this one is weak, this one is evil, this one is courageous. OK, not that one dimensional you get the point. A good history lesson, a pretty decent story, but too many cut and paste characters.
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 to 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.
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| Title of eBook: Fall of Giants | |
| Release Date: 06-29-2011 | |
| Publisher: Pan Books |
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| Parent title | Fall of Giants |
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| Encrypted (DRM) | Yes |
| SKU | 9780230757073 |
| File size | 1043 |
| Internet Security | n/a |
| Printing | Not allowed |
| Copying | Not allowed |
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Title: Fall of Giants September 3, 2011 A good way to explore history. The author paints a vast drama on a large canvas covering, Europe, Asia and North America. The book describes the events leading up to the First World War the events of the war and the subsequent settlement, through the eyes of five diverse families, whose lives become intertwined over time.
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Number of Comments: 3 Rating(s) 1 Review(s)
A good history lesson, a somewhat flawed book
Reviewer: A reader from UNVIERSITY CITY, MO USA
If you are a fan of Mitchner then this book is probably for you. I found the history to be good but like Mitchner, I thought it suffered from too many cut and paste characterizations. It was as if each character was drawn to represent one element of behavior. This one is pious, this one is weak, this one is evil, this one is courageous. OK, not that one dimensional you get the point.
A good history lesson, a pretty decent story, but too many cut and paste characters.
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