It is 1911. The Coronation Day of King George V. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of an ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and to two orphaned Russian brothers, whose plans to emigrate to America fall foul of war, conscription and revolution.
Five families, American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh, move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. The plot contains profanity, graphic sexual situations, and violence. Book #1
Genres
- World War, 1914-1918
- Fiction
- History
- Twentieth century
- Social life and customs
- Fiction, historical
- Fiction, sagas
- Fiction, family life
- World war, 1914-1918, fiction
- Soviet union, history, revolution, 1917-1921, fiction
- Large type books
- Vida social y costumbres
- Historia
- Siglo XX
- Novela
- Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918
- Ficción
- Novela histórica
- Histoire
- Roman
- Espionnage
- Roman sentimental
- Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
- Roman historique
- Littérature anglaise
- Romans, nouvelles
- Litterature anglaise
- World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746
- Historical fiction
- Manners and customs
- Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) fast (OCoLC)fst01907572
- Domestic fiction
- Chang pian xiao shuo
- Coal mines and mining
- nyt:hardcover-fiction=2010-10-17
- New York Times bestseller
- New York Times reviewed
- Fiction, historical, general
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