"This is the story of my grandparents and yours from our parents and our own lives. In some ways it is the story of us all. "Ken Follett In 1933, Berlin is a focus of political and social turmoil. Lady Maud, now the wife of Walter von Ulrich and mother of two children, a weekly magazine published in articles that ridicule the Nazi Party, while Walter expressed his opposition in Parliament. However, it seems that nothing can stop the rising power of Adolf Hitler. When Ethel Lloyd Williams and his son Ulrich Von visit the family, everyone will witness tyranny and repression of the new Germany. The domain of the Third Reich runs through France and beyond the Russian border. While in England, Lloyd Williams, political activist and his mother, fought in the British army to try to stop the advance of the Nazis and enlist in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. Ty Gwyn, the Fitzherbert family mansion in Wales, the British officers staying and during his stay, Lieutenant Lloyd Williams will be attracted by women of Boy Fitzherbert, the rich American heiress Daisy Peshkov. In this magnificent epic novel, Ken Follett takes the reader through a Europe in ruins, broken again by wars and ideological conflicts. The children of the five protagonists families Falling giants forge their destiny in the turbulent years of World War II, the Spanish Civil War, the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the era of the atomic bomb.