Produktdetails

Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits... Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surpris- ing new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House... two orphaned Russian brothers, Grigori and Lev Pesh- kov, embark on radically different paths half a world apart when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution... Billy's sister, Ethel, a housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzher- berts, takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London These characters and many others find their lives in- extricably entangled as, in a saga of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants moves seamlessly from Washington to St. Petersburg, from the dirt and