Fall of Giants

Its place in The Century Trilogy

Fall of Giants is book 1 in the The Century Trilogy series. It is followed by Winter of the World. See the full The Century Trilogy reading order.

Ken Follett's Century Trilogy follows five interconnected families — American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh — across the entire twentieth century, from the eve of the First World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Fall of Giants opens in 1911 and runs through WWI and the Russian Revolution; Winter of the World picks up the next generation through the rise of Nazism, the Spanish Civil War, and WWII; Edge of Eternity carries their children through the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the collapse of…