Ken Follett - Fall of Giants

Table of Contents

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

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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
823.914dc22 2010009279

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Martin and Veenie Follett.

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 Guss
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, Fitzs butler
Sanderson, Mauds maid

OTHERS

Mildred Perkins, Ethel Williamss lodger
Bernie Leckwith, secretary of the Aldgate branch of the Independent Labour Party
Bing Westhampton, Fitzs friend
Marquis of Lowther, Lowthie, rejected suitor of Maud
Albert Solman, Fitzs 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, soldiers 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, Walters 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, Gretas 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, Konstantins 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, Beas 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, Caras father

GRIFFITHS FAMILY

Len Griffiths, atheist and Marxist
Mrs. Griffiths
Tommy Griffiths, their son, Billy Williamss 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