Ken Follett
Fall of Giants
The first book in the Century series, 2010
To the memory of my parents,
Martin and Veenie Follett.
Cast of Characters
DEWAR FAMILY
Senator Cameron Dewar
Ursula Dewar, his wife
Gus Dewar, their son
VYALOV FAMILY
Josef Vyalov, businessman
Lena Vyalov, his wife
Olga Vyalov, their daughter
OTHERS
Rosa Hellman, journalist
Chuck Dixon, school friend of Gus’s
Marga, nightclub singer
Nick Forman, thief
Ilya, thug
Theo, thug
Norman Niall, crooked accountant
Brian Hall, union leader
REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS
Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth president
William Jennings Bryan, secretary of state
Joseph Daniels, secretary of the navy
FITZHERBERT FAMILY
Earl Fitzherbert, called Fitz
Princess Elizaveta, called Bea, his wife
Lady Maud Fitzherbert, his sister
Lady Hermia, called Aunt Herm, their poor aunt
The Duchess of Sussex, their rich aunt
Gelert, Pyrenean mountain dog
Grout, Fitz’s butler
Sanderson, Maud’s maid
OTHERS
Mildred Perkins, Ethel Williams’s lodger
Bernie Leckwith, secretary of the Aldgate branch of the Independent Labour Party
Bing Westhampton, Fitz’s friend
Marquis of Lowther, “Lowthie,” rejected suitor of Maud
Albert Solman, Fitz’s man of business
Dr. Greenward, volunteer at the baby clinic
Lord “Johnny” Remarc, junior War Office minister
Colonel Hervey, aide to Sir John French
Lieutenant Murray, aide to Fitz
Mannie Litov, factory owner
Jock Reid, treasurer of the Aldgate Independent Labour Party
Jayne McCulley, soldier’s wife
REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS
King George V
Queen Mary
Mansfield Smith-Cumming, called “C,” head of the Foreign Section of the Secret Service Bureau (later MI6)
Sir Edward Grey, M.P., foreign secretary
Sir William Tyrrell, private secretary to Grey
Frances Stevenson, mistress of Lloyd George
Winston Churchill, M.P.
H. H. Asquith, M.P., prime minister
Sir John French, commander of the British Expeditionary Force
Gini, a bar girl
Colonel Dupuys, aide to General Gallieni
General Lourceau, aide to General Joffre
REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS
General Joffre, commander in chief of French forces
General Gallieni, commander of the Paris garrison
VON ULRICH FAMILY
Otto von Ulrich, diplomat
Susanne von Ulrich, his wife
