Chinese language
Published Jan. 20, 2016
4 stars
(1 review)
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
Subjects
- World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746
- World War, 1914-1918
- History
- Chang pian xiao shuo
- Coal mines and mining
- Revolution (Soviet Union : 1917-1921) fast (OCoLC)fst01907572
- Twentieth century
- Fiction
Places
- United States
- Great Britain
- Germany
- ying guo
- Wales
- Soviet Union