Fall of Giants
About this book
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. Five families, American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh, move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. The plot contains profanity, graphic sexual situations, and violence. Book #1
Reader Profile
4.3/5 · 354915 readers · 998 pages · ≈ 18 h 29 m · Moderate
What order should I read the The Century Trilogy series?
Read Fall of Giants first, then follow the publication order above — Fall of Giants, then Winter of the World, then Edge of Eternity.
How long does it take to read Fall of Giants?
About ≈ 18 h 29 m — 998 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Fall of Giants?
998 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Fall of Giants?
It sits on the Historical Fiction, History, Fiction shelves.
Is Fall of Giants in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does Fall of Giants take place?
It is set in United Kingdom, Germany, Russia during 1911, 1914, 1915.
Who wrote Fall of Giants?
Ken Follett.
The Century Trilogy — reading order
- → Fall of Giants (2010) you are here
- 1 Fall of Giants
- 2 Winter of the World (2012)
- 3 Edge of Eternity (2014)