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Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication PROLOGUE - INITIATION CHAPTER ONE - June 22, 1911 PART ONE - THE DARKENING SKY CHAPTER TWO - January 1914 CHAPTER THREE - February 1914 CHAPTER FOUR - March 1914 CHAPTER FIVE - April 1914 CHAPTER SIX - June 1914 CHAPTER SEVEN - Early July 1914 CHAPTER EIGHT - Mid-July 1914 CHAPTER NINE - Late July 1914 CHAPTER TEN - August 1-3, 1914 CHAPTER ELEVEN - August 4, 1914 PART TWO - THE WAR of GIANTS CHAPTER TWELVE - Early to Late August 1914 CHAPTER THIRTEEN - September to December 1914 CHAPTER FOURTEEN - February 1915 CHAPTER FIFTEEN - June to September1915 CHAPTER SIXTEEN - June 1916 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - July 1, 1916 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Late July 1916 CHAPTER NINETEEN - July to October 1916 CHAPTER TWENTY - November to December 1916 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - December 1916 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - January and February 1917 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - March 1917 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - April 1917 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - May and June 1917 CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - Mid-June 1917 CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN - June to September 1917 CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT - October and November 1917 CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE - March 1918 CHAPTER THIRTY - Late March and April 1918 CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE - May to September 1918 CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO - October 1918 CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE - November 11, 1918 PART THREE - THE WORLD MADE NEW CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR - November to December 1918 CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE - December 1918 to February 1919 CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX - March to April 1919 CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN - May and June 1919 CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT - August to October 1919 CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE - January 1920 CHAPTER FORTY - February to December 1920 CHAPTER FORTY-ONE - November 11-12, 1923 CHAPTER FORTY-TWO - December 1923 to January 1924 Historical Characters Acknowledgements Also by Ken Follett The Modigliani Scandal Paper Money Eye of the Needle Triple The Key to Rebecca The Man from St. Petersburg On Wings of Eagles Lie Down with Lions The Pillars of the Earth Night over Water A Dangerous Fortune A Place Called Freedom The Third Twin The Hammer of Eden Code to Zero Jackdaws Hornet Flight Whiteout World Without End DUTTON Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. 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First printing, October 2010 Copyright (c) 2010 by Ken Follett All rights reserved REGISTERED TRADEMARK--MARCA REGISTRADA LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Follett, Ken. Fall of giants : book one of the century trilogy / by Ken Follett. p. cm.--(Century ; bk. 1) eISBN : 978-1-101-44355-2 1. Domestic fiction. I. Title. PR6056.O45F35 2010 823'.914--dc22 2010009279 PUBLISHER'S NOTE This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. 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Cast of Characters American DEWAR FAMILY Senator Cameron Dewar Ursula Dewar, his wife Gus Dewar, their son VYALOV FAMILY Josef Vyalov, businessman Lena Vyalov, his wife Olga Vyalov, their daughter OTHERS Rosa Hellman, journalist Chuck Dixon, school friend of Gus's Marga, nightclub singer Nick Forman, thief Ilya, thug Theo, thug Norman Niall, crooked accountant Brian Hall, union leader REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth president William Jennings Bryan, secretary of state Joseph Daniels, secretary of the navy English and Scottish FITZHERBERT FAMILY Earl Fitzherbert, called Fitz Princess Elizaveta, called Bea, his wife Lady Maud Fitzherbert, his sister Lady Hermia, called Aunt Herm, their poor aunt The Duchess of Sussex, their rich aunt Gelert, Pyrenean mountain dog Grout, Fitz's butler Sanderson, Maud's maid OTHERS Mildred Perkins, Ethel Williams's lodger Bernie Leckwith, secretary of the Aldgate branch of the Independent Labour Party Bing Westhampton, Fitz's friend Marquis of Lowther, "Lowthie," rejected suitor of Maud Albert Solman, Fitz's man of business Dr. Greenward, volunteer at the baby clinic Lord "Johnny" Remarc, junior War Office minister Colonel Hervey, aide to Sir John French Lieutenant Murray, aide to Fitz Mannie Litov, factory owner Jock Reid, treasurer of the Aldgate Independent Labour Party Jayne McCulley, soldier's wife REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS King George V Queen Mary Mansfield Smith-Cumming, called "C," head of the Foreign Section of the Secret Service Bureau (later MI6) Sir Edward Grey, M.P., foreign secretary Sir William Tyrrell, private secretary to Grey Frances Stevenson, mistress of Lloyd George Winston Churchill, M.P. H. H. Asquith, M.P., prime minister Sir John French, commander of the British Expeditionary Force French Gini, a bar girl Colonel Dupuys, aide to General Gallieni General Lourceau, aide to General Joffre REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS General Joffre, commander in chief of French forces General Gallieni, commander of the Paris garrison German and Austrian VON ULRICH FAMILY Otto von Ulrich, diplomat Susanne von Ulrich, his wife Walter von Ulrich, their son, military attache at the German embassy in London Greta von Ulrich, their daughter Graf (Count) Robert von Ulrich, Walter's second cousin, military attache at the Austrian embassy in London OTHERS Gottfried von Kessel, cultural attache at the German embassy in London Monika von der Helbard, Greta's best friend REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS Prince Karl Lichnowsky, German ambassador to London Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg General of Infantry Erich Ludendorff Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German chancellor Arthur Zimmermann, German foreign minister Russian PESHKOV FAMILY Grigori Peshkov, metalworker Lev Peshkov, horse wrangler PUTILOV MACHINE WORKS Konstantin, lathe operator, chairman of the Bolshevik discussion group Isaak, captain of the football team Varya, female laborer, Konstantin's mother Serge Kanin, supervisor of the casting section Count Maklakov, director OTHERS Mikhail Pinsky, police officer Ilya Kozlov, his sidekick Nina, maid to Princess Bea Prince Andrei, Bea's brother Katerina, a peasant girl new to the city Mishka, bar owner Trofim, gangster Fyodor, corrupt cop Spirya, passenger on the Angel Gabriel Yakov, passenger on the Angel Gabriel Anton, clerk at the Russian embassy in London, also a spy for Germany David, Jewish soldier Sergeant Gavrik Lieutenant Tomchak REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Party Leon Trotsky Welsh WILLIAMS FAMILY David Williams, union organizer Cara Williams, his wife Ethel Williams, their daughter Billy Williams, their son Gramper, Cara's father GRIFFITHS FAMILY Len Griffiths, atheist and Marxist Mrs. Griffiths Tommy Griffiths, their son, Billy Williams's best friend PONTI FAMILY Mrs. Minnie Ponti Giuseppe "Joey" Ponti, her son Giovanni "Johnny" Ponti, his younger brother MINERS David Crampton, "Dai Crybaby" Harry "Suet" Hewitt John Jones the Shop Dai Chops, the butcher's son Pat Pope, Main Level onsetter Micky Pope, Pat's son Dai Ponies, horse wrangler Bert Morgan MINE MANAGEMENT Perceval Jones, chairman of Celtic Minerals Maldwyn Morgan, colliery manager Rhys Price, colliery manager's deputy Arthur "Spotty" Llewellyn, colliery clerk STAFF AT TY GWYN Peel, butler Mrs. Jevons, housekeeper Morrison, footman OTHERS Dai Muck, sanitary worker Mrs. Dai Ponies Mrs. Roley Hughes Mrs. Hywel Jones Private George Barrow, B Company Private Robin Mortimer, cashiered officer, B Company Private Owen Bevin, B Company Sergeant Elijah "Prophet" Jones, B Company Second Lieutenant James Carlton-Smith, B Company Captain Gwyn Evans, A Company Second Lieutenant Roland Morgan, A Company REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS David Lloyd George, Liberal member of Parliament
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