The Resource Fall of giants, Ken Follett
Fall of giants, Ken Follett
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The item Fall of giants, Ken Follett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- Adventure fiction. Domestic fiction. This 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 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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Fall of giants
- Title
- Fall of giants
- Statement of responsibility
- Ken Follett
- Subject
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- Epic fiction
- Germany -- History -- 1918-1933 -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Manners and customs -- Fiction
- Soviet Union -- History | Revolution -- 1917-1921 -- Fiction
- Twentieth century -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- 1913-1921 -- Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
- Coal mines and mining -- Wales -- History -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Adventure fiction. Domestic fiction. This 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 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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- UNITY
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Follett, Ken
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Century trilogy
- Series volume
- 1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Coal mines and mining
- Manners and customs
- Twentieth century
- World War, 1914-1918
- Soviet Union
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- Germany
- Great Britain
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Fall of giants, Ken Follett
- Note
- Originally published: 2010
- Control code
- 000047940037
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 851 p.
- Isbn
- 9780330460552
- System control number
- (OCoLC)720546129
- Label
- Fall of giants, Ken Follett
- Note
- Originally published: 2010
- Control code
- 000047940037
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 851 p.
- Isbn
- 9780330460552
- System control number
- (OCoLC)720546129
Subject
- Epic fiction
- Germany -- History -- 1918-1933 -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- Manners and customs -- Fiction
- Soviet Union -- History | Revolution -- 1917-1921 -- Fiction
- Twentieth century -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- 1913-1921 -- Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
- Coal mines and mining -- Wales -- History -- Fiction
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