Well the extra free time finally come with my summer vacation to Minnesota. Not sure why, maybe I was just waiting for a good recommendation or some extra free time. “After finishing the novel, I realized that I learned more about WWI, the Russian Revolution, English politics in the 20th century, the origin of the League of Nations, communism, and Leninism than I had in the last 25 years, within a 30 hour novel.It's been a very long time since I've read a book.“The development of the book was also really well done and I loved the characters, the plot, and the historical topic! So good!” - HookedtoBooks.If you’re looking for a political discussion and questions of class, you’ll find it here. “If you’re looking for love, you’ll find that in here.52 Book Club 2021 Challenge - a family saga.I read this for the following reading challenges: I’m sure I’ll be reading the final 2 books in the trilogy. I particularly appreciated the depiction of the Bolshevik Revolution, because that is a piece of history that I’m not very familiar with. There was a fair amount of political stuff at the end that I found myself tuning out on, but I’m always interested in the stories of the people. Did it keep me entertained for 30 hours? It did! For the most part. Is it entirely historically accurate? Probably not. No one writes a historical saga quite like Ken Follett. 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. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. 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. This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. Genres: historical fiction, hf - multi-period sagaĪlso by this author: Jackdaws, Hornet Flight, Whiteout Published by Viking on September 28, 2010

Fall of giants review