The Fall of Giants: Love in War

The Fall of the Giant is a phenomenal best-selling novel master and the winner of Poe's lifetime master award. Follette's works, it is said that Follette's novel writing position is no less than Jin Yong's position in the hearts of Chinese people.

The Fall of the Giants is set in World War I, which vividly shows the real and complicated social situation 100 years ago. While describing the fate of five families, it is interspersed with love stories of several young people.

Empire declines, heroes rise, and true love is invincible. You can't help breathing, sharing fate and growing up with the characters in the book in the war.

When I first read this book, I didn't agree with it. When I read it, I was deeply immersed in it. Although the total number of pages in this book is 1 168, and the number of words is nearly 600,000 words, it is also very enjoyable and I can't bear to stop.

Women are always immune to love stories, and novels are set in World War I. Akai is more interested in several love stories produced under the background of war than war.

Follette is the best storyteller. So these love stories emerge in front of your eyes as clearly as slow motion, so that you can completely immerse yourself in them and share the same fate with him.

Before telling some love stories, let's briefly introduce some main characters in the novel.

Fitz. Earl Herbert (UK): Born in a prominent family, he is arrogant, conservative and romantic.

What? Lord Fitzherbert (English): Fitz's younger sister, beautiful and generous, is keen on the feminist movement and pursues a model of love at all costs.

Walter. Feng? Ulrich (Germany): Born in a prominent German family, he was an outstanding diplomat with an open mind, love for peace and loyalty to love.

Gus. Dewar (USA): Secretary of the President of the United States, calm and brave, is the embodiment of democracy and equality.

Gregory? Beskow (Russia): Honest, reliable and insightful, he joined the army and became a representative of the Soviet Union.

Lev. Beskow (Russia → USA): Gregory's younger brother is handsome, likable, troublesome, playboy and selfish.

Billy? Williams (Wales): Miner, later joined the army, strong, brave, generous and kind, and later joined the new British Parliament.

Ethel. Williams (Wales): Billy's sister, smart, capable, young and beautiful, is Fitz's former housekeeper, with a political mind and advocates women's rights.

Rosa? Herman: A female journalist who is elegant and confident and has a keen sense of politics was born with one eye closed.

Olga? Vyalov, the only daughter of Russian-American businessman Joseph, is beautiful, arrogant and simple-minded.

Mildred: Londoners, Ethel's tenants and colleagues, single women with two children all like to play vulgar jokes.

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Maud is a thoughtful person, and Walter likes to discuss practical problems with her. Do not appreciate Walter's wisdom and knowledge. The two men had a spark of love in their association.

Happiness always flies by. On the eve of Britain's formal declaration of war on Germany and the withdrawal of its diplomats in Britain, the two married quietly at all costs.

After marriage, the world was filled with smoke and the two lost contact. Walter went to war, while Modi stayed in England. Mody doesn't know whether Walter is alive or dead, and Walter doesn't know whether Mody is still waiting for him.

In nearly five years, they tried every means, only one letter exchange and one meeting. They also wavered on the issue of marriage, and Walter was seduced by Monica's beauty and kindness. Facing Gus's wisdom and justice, Dai Mo hesitated. However, the two still stuck to their love and finally waited for each other.

After the war, under great pressure, the two publicly announced their marriage to the outside world, and the outside world was in an uproar. When Walter asked Modai if he would like to go back to Germany with him, Modai quoted a passage from the Bible and replied, "Where you go, I will go;" Where you stay, I will stay; Your country is my country, and your god is my god; Where you die, I will die and be buried there. "

After the war, Germany was devastated and lacked food. Because of his marriage with Modi, he lost his job as a diplomat. By marrying Walter, my brother cut her off. In order to support his family, the former Lord was willing to go to the bar to play the piano and was often eaten by guests.

Old Modai died, Modai lived again, and the war made everyone grow up to varying degrees.

For Walter, as long as he can be with the person he loves, he can't give up; For Dai Mo, as long as she can hug her lover at any time, what is she afraid of?

"He is willing to die for the benefit of Germany, but he doesn't want to live without the woman he loves."

The two crossed Qianshan for love, vigorous and crisp.

True love can transcend time and space and everything. True love has never been hindered and will not be betrayed. True love is invincible!

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Count Fitz is young and rich. Like many aristocrats, he believed in matching families and complementary interests, so he married a Russian princess.

He fell in love with Ethel, a beautiful and smart young housekeeper. Young and innocent Ethel also fell madly in love with Fitz, and she appreciated Fitz's manners and manners.

After Fitz learned that Ethel was pregnant, he cruelly let Ethel take a sum of money and disappear into his world forever with the child, and the previous gentleness also disappeared.

Ethel, who was pregnant before marriage, went to London and suffered a lot. Influenced by her father, she has a certain interest and keen interest in politics and devotes herself to the feminist movement after work. Later, he became the editor-in-chief of Soldier's Wife, speaking for women.

Fitz met Ethel and was attracted by her charm again. At this time, he found that he had never forgotten her. He promised to make her happy for the rest of her life and hoped to have her again.

Ethel once wavered. After all, he is so madly in love with him. After all, he is the first man in his life. After much deliberation, she turned him down. Perhaps, he is just a canary in his own mind and may be abandoned at any time. Ethel doesn't want to make the same mistake. She has grown up over the years.

Ethel married like-minded Bernie and had an illegitimate child. She was grateful to Ethel. However, when Bernie found that Ethel blocked his election, he couldn't help feeling sorry for Ethel. Maybe Bernie is not suitable for Ethel, but a passer-by on Ethel's growth path.

Fortunately, Ethel overcame her husband Bernie's obstruction, stuck to his beliefs, and finally won his seat with overwhelming advantage and achieved success.

I don't know how far Ethel and Bernie's love can go. To tell the truth, I don't think their love is so good. Perhaps as Ethel goes further and further in the feminist movement, Bernie will feel more insecure, which will lead to the failure of marriage.

Men always ask too much of women. When you accomplish nothing, he will dislike your mediocrity and the two sides lack common topics; When you achieve something, he will say that you walk too fast and widen the distance between you.

I remember a description in the book. Ethel sometimes thinks of Fitz after marriage, and even misses his smell, although it makes her feel guilty and sorry for Bernie who loves her.

However, Fitz and Ethel will not have a future, because Ethel has looked down on Fitz from the bottom of his heart, and his conservatism and arrogance no longer make Ethel tempted. When a man is no longer appreciated by women, love loses its former glory.

Only when a woman grows up and struggles can she have a future. Ethel's success has become an inspiring model. As long as you are good enough, the god you should have will let you have it; If you lose something, God will give it to you for you to decide.

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Gus is Akai's favorite character in this novel. As the secretary of the president of the United States, Gus is calm and resourceful; As a commander on the battlefield, he is strong, brave and resourceful.

Although Gus is good-looking, honest, kind and brave, he is quite simple in emotional issues, which makes people dislike him. Although the road was rugged, he finally found his own happiness.

When Gus informed Rosa of his engagement to Olga, Rosa said two words: "You idiot." And "you fucking fool." Gus was tongue-tied Maybe Rosa fell in love with Gus from then on.

Rosa? Herman has one eye closed from birth. His first impression of Rosa was: "She is still beautiful, which makes her defects more obvious. In addition, her dress is always fashionable, as if she is very provocative. "

When Gus' engagement with Olga was cancelled, Rosa was already a female assistant in a news agency in Washington. With more and more contact between the two people, the feelings are also heating up unconsciously.

At a ball after the war, Gus confessed to Rosa: "I think maybe I have been in love with you for quite a long time, but I never knew." Reading this, I can't help but rejoice. Everything will be fine. All shall be well, jack shall have Jill.

Compared with Fitz and Bibi, the love between Gus and Rosa is matched in spirit and soul. This kind of marriage is the happiest, the most enviable and the most lasting. It is not afraid of time and distance. On the contrary, it will be more tacit and happy with the passage of time.

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Although Billy is only the son of a miner, he is generous and kind, but he was brave, thoughtful and ambitious when he was young. After the baptism of the war, Billy became more and more mature and later joined the new British Parliament.

The author's description of Mildred is: "If her front teeth were not prominent, she would be beautiful. Her specialty is telling dirty jokes. "

I think love is really a strange thing, and I can't catch it off guard. From the moment she entered Billy, she entered the boy's heart.

They hit it off, Billy didn't dislike him because she was old and had two daughters, and Mildred didn't feel inferior because of her own conditions.

After Billy joined the army, they corresponded and had a smooth relationship. The relationship between the couple is the smoothest in the book. She is just a little woman at the bottom of society. She is simple-minded, happy and free. She has no ideal to return, but she is the happiest person alive.

Sometimes I even envy Mildred. I forgot all the plans and goals. As long as we live a simple and free life, what comes will definitely come again, just like the happy love between Billy and me.

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Katrina is an unfortunate girl with a miserable life. At the same time, she is also the luckiest girl. Gregory fell in love with her at first sight, but Katrina fell in love with Gregory's brother Lev.

Compared with Gregory's honesty and trustworthiness, Lev is selfish and full of mischief. Is it true that men are not bad and women don't love them?

After Leo got into trouble, he fled to the United States with his brother's air ticket and abandoned the pregnant Katrina to escape alone. In order to survive, when I learned that Gregory was about to join the army, I married him in a hurry, just to get the subsidy from my military wife and support myself and my son.

After Gregory came back from the battlefield, Katrina found herself in love with him. Maybe when girls are young, they usually like handsome guys who are a little angry at the same time. However, when she matures, she will find that no matter how beautiful love is, it is not as real as a piece of bread.

Katrina is very lucky. Although she loved the wrong person when she was young, there was still someone who loved her deeply. However, there are only a few lucky girls like her. After all, life is not a casino, so you can't bet easily.

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Olga? Vyalov is the only daughter of Russian-American businessman Joseph. She is very beautiful. "Early twenties, fair skin and blue eyes." She likes history, but her father won't let her go to college, which may be the root of her life tragedy.

Olga is bored all day, and the appearance of playboy Lev just fills this gap. Olga repeatedly tasted the forbidden fruit and got pregnant unexpectedly, so she could only let Olga marry Lev.

There is no affection between Olga and Lev. After the marriage, Lev was still merciful, and later he accidentally killed his father-in-law. After Lev killed his father, Olga did not testify in court, but perjured himself and was firmly controlled by Lev.

After years of pampering, Olga completely lost the ability to survive and think independently. Olga used to have good family conditions. She is beautiful, rich and beautiful, but she is content with the status quo and does not make progress. As a result, she had no way out. I wonder if she finally realized this.

Olga is the most pitiful in the novel, and even Katrina and Mildred can't compare, let alone Ethel and Modai. It was a good card, but it was played by myself.

Life is like a deck of cards. God gave it to you when you were born, depending on how you play.

Someone broke a good deck of cards, just like Olga. Some people have a bad deck of cards, but after hard work, they have played a wonderful life, just like Ethel and Billy.

From this war, we have seen that everyone is growing, and there is a way out for growth and a future.

In Qian Qian, there are thousands of reasons for failure, but there is only one reason for success-courage!

"The world belongs to the brave, so the world belongs to me."

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