An epic of love; hatred; war and revolution 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. 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.