And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. 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.
An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. 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, Fall of Giants 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. Staining at bottom of inner dust jacket, single light crease down spine, spine ends bruised.
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