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Violence
A lot
WWI combat violence in graphic detail; the Russian Revolution's violence; deaths of significant characters
Language
Some
Adult language
Sexual Content
A lot
Explicit adult sexual content in multiple storylines; affairs, premarital relationships
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking throughout the period settings
Emotional Intensity
Some
The psychological cost of war across five different perspectives; the weight of historical forces on individual lives
What this book is about
Fall of Giants follows Welsh miners, English aristocrats, German cousins, Russian revolutionaries, and American observers through World War I and its aftermath. Ken Follett's Century Trilogy opener is the most ambitious popular fiction of its era in scope: five families, five countries, two decades, the most transformative period in modern history. The research is impeccable, the characters memorable, and the history—often taught as abstract—becomes viscerally real.
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Graphic WWI combat violence
Explicit adult sexual content
The Russian Revolution's violence depicted
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