This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, & 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 & 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 & to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription & revolution. In a plot of unfolding drama & intriguing complexity, ” Fall of Giants” moves seamlessly from Washington to St Petersburg, from the dirt & danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty.