Synopsis
The first in Ken Follett's breathtaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating 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.
A World in Chaos
1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating arms...
Details
20 September 2018864 pages
9781509848515Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Few works set out with such a grand concept as Ken Follett’s new Century trilogy, but part one suggests that the series will be one of the literary masterpieces of our timeSunday Times
He’s pulled it off again with Fall of Giants: it’s classic Follett with the brewing cataclysm of war given a human angleSunday Express
Follett is masterly in conveying so much drama and historical information so vividlyScotsman
The master storyteller Ken Follett knits together British, American, German and Russian points of view from the start to the end of the First World War into a fascinating and remarkably fertile tapestry of society and politicsThe Times
