“ Winter of the World,” the equally massive second volume of the trilogy, opens in the critical year of 1933. “Fall of Giants” ended in early 1924, with a defeated Germany collapsing beneath the effects of runaway inflation and the demands of the Treaty of Versailles, a combination that paved the way for the rise of National Socialism and the advent of Adolf Hitler.
Those stories encompassed the struggle for women’s suffrage the increasingly bitter relations between the working class and an entrenched aristocracy the origins of the 1917 Russian Revolution and, most centrally, the carnage of World War I, a catastrophic conflict that claimed more than 15 million lives. In 2010, Ken Follett published “ Fall of Giants,” the opening movement of his vast, dauntingly ambitious “Century Trilogy.” In the course of that 1,000-page epic, Follett introduced readers to five families from a variety of countries - England, Wales, Russia, Germany, the United States - and used their lives to illuminate the events of the early 20th century.
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