Ken Follett's magnificent new historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man's world in the mining pits. . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzh