Why books on monday? Well, if I have not been at work during the weekend I usually do a bit of reading on weekends. That’s why I thought it was suitable to share my experience on Monday. Here are some books that I have been reading lately.<\/p>\n
Ken Follett\u2019s Century Trilogy<\/strong> follows the fortunes of five intertwined families\u2014American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh\u2014as they make their way through the twentieth century. It has been called \u201cpotent, engrossing\u201d (Publishers Weekly<\/i>) and \u201ctruly epic\u201d (Huffington Post<\/i>). USA Today <\/i>said, \u201cYou actually feel like you\u2019re there.\u201d<\/p>\n I find these books highly captivating and even though the main characters are fictional, their stories play out in front of a real and well researced historic backdrop.<\/p>\n The characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as they add their personal stories and insight to the most defining events of the 20th century. From the opulent offices of the most powerful world leaders to the shabby apartments of those trying to begin a new empire, from the elite clubs of the wealthy and highborn to the passionate protests of a country\u2019s most marginalized citizens, this is truly a drama for the ages.<\/p>\n With the Century Trilogy, Follett guides readers through an entire era of history with a master\u2019s touch. His unique ability to tell fascinating, brilliantly researched stories that captivate readers and keep them turning the pages is unparalleled. In this climactic and concluding saga, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same again.<\/p>\n The first in Ken Follett’s bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants<\/i> is 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.<\/p>\n 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 with two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution.<\/p>\n In a plot of unfolding drama and intriguing complexity, Fall of Giants<\/i> 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.<\/div><\/div>\nFall of Giants (The Century Trilogy book 1)<\/span><\/h6>\n