Fall of Giants -- Ken Follett

<b>Ken Follett's magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.</b> <p/>A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. <p/>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, <i>Fall of Giants</i> takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families--and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .<br><br><b>Author:</b> Ken Follett<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Books<br><b>Published:</b> 08/30/2011<br><b>Pages:</b> 1008<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 2.63lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.92h x 6.07w x 1.63d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780451232571<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 6.2<br><b>Point Value:</b> 52<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade