The fall of the giants
Ken · Follett
8.9 (85600 reviews)
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In the smoke of the First World War, every life towards death grew enthusiastically - a young miner in Wales, a newly lost United States law student, a destitute Russian brother, a rich and handsome earl of England, and an infatuated Germany agent...
From dusty and dangerous coal mines to glittering royal palaces, from corridors of power to love-hate bedrooms, the disparate and intertwined fates of five families are revealed, a magnificent 20th century that we think we know but never feel so really.
Detective
Travel
8.9 (470 reviews)
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In 1449, in the autumn of the fourteenth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolia Wara Department invaded the south, and Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen, led a large army to march in person, and was besieged by the Wara army at Tumubao, suffering heavy casualties, and Emperor Yingzong was also captured. At the time of the crisis of Sheji, Zhu Qiyu, the king of servants who stayed in Beijing, ascended the throne, and Yu Qian, a famous minister, served as the secretary of the military department, led the army and the people to resist bravely, and won the victory in the defense of Beijing.
The story of this book takes place shortly after the end of the Battle of Beijing, when Yu Qian ordered Zhu Kang, a veteran of the old army, to go to Shanxi to inspect the loopholes in the northern defense, trying to find out the cause of the defeat of civil engineering. On the way, Zhu Kang met the young son Zhang Shaozu again, and the two embarked on a dangerous journey together. The border army generals, local officials, and bandits and rogues with ghosts brought many dangers and obstacles to their investigation, and they also received the help of benevolent and righteous people in the middle. They lifted a corner of the brocade robe of the Ming Dynasty and found all kinds of horror and darkness. This investigation, in the end, also fell into a situation out of control.
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Masato Hirose
7.9 (2722 reviews)
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In 1945 in Tokyo, when the area where the teenager Toshio Hamada lived, an air raid was struck, and his neighbor Izawa asked Hamada a strange thing when he was dying—18 years later, he hoped that he would return here. When Hamada arrived at the agreed place at the appointed time, he met Izawa's daughter, Keiko, who had been missing for 18 years since the air raid that day. At the same time, there is a strange machine there......
This book is a masterpiece by Masashi Hirose, a genius who died early and winner of the Nebula Award, the highest award for Japan science fiction, and is known as the pinnacle of Japan's time travel science fiction novels and a classic masterpiece in the history of Japan science fiction.
The whole text is precisely constructed, like a perfectly engaged gear. Vivid details restore the style of the entire Showa era. A journey through time and space, exhausting the imagination of the future and the past.