Summary
Ken Follett: Dawn of the Giants I-II
Dawn of the Giants, the first novel of the Century trilogy, follows the intertwined lives of five families - American, German, Russian, English and Welsh - in the dramatic events of the early twentieth century: World War I, the Russian Revolution and women's struggle for suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters the world of men in a Welsh coal mine; Gus Dewar, an American law student who is unlucky in love, unexpectedly begins a career in the White House with Woodrow Wilson; Grigorije and Lev Peshkov, brothers who tragically become orphans, take completely different paths on opposite sides of the world when their plan to emigrate to America is thwarted by war, recruitment and revolution; Billy's sister Ethel, housekeeper in the home of the aristocratic Fitzgerbert family, takes a fateful step outside of her social status, while Lady Maud Fitzgerbert ventures deep into forbidden territory by falling in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy in the German embassy in London...
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