6/27/2023 0 Comments Ken follett fall of giants trilogy![]() ![]() The Austrians had attacked Serbia when they might have held back the Russians had mobilized instead of negotiating the Germans had refused to attend an international conference to settle the issue the French had been offered the chance to remain neutral and had spurned it and now the British were about to join in when they might easily have remained on the sidelines.”įall of Giants begins just before World War I, and focuses on WWI’s impact on several families across the West: Billy and Ethel Williams (the children of poor Welsh miners), Earl Fitzherbert and his sister Maude (British aristocrats), Gregori & Lev Peshkov (Russian factory workers), Gus Dewar (an American politician) and Walter Ullrich (a German aristocrat). ![]() “In every country, those who were against war had been overruled. ![]() A few weeks ago, I started the first of the Century Trilogy, titled Fall of Giants, on audiobook and loved it. I discovered him as a historical fiction writer last year when I read the two Pillars of Earth books, and knew I needed to find more like that. ![]() I’m sad that my experience with Ken Follett novels for years was with his shorter novels, like The Third Twin and The Key to Rebecca, that I mainly read for the dirty bits (I think I read The Third Twin went I was 13–several times). ![]()
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