Sadly, it's been a while since I finished this, but haven't logged it. Considering the size of this book, I'm going to plead failing memory; by the end, I couldn't even remember what happened at the beginning.

Fall of Giants is a massive fictional record of people in factual times. In a lot of cases, large book + historical fiction = dusty doorstop, but I like Follett's way of being able to stay on the engaging side of what could be an attention-span train-wreck. Not all scenes are exciting, but with a massive cast of characters, several plots both local and international, all set during both WWI AND the Russian Revolution (the story crosses both simultaneously), there's more than enough going to to ensure that if you just flip the next page, even the most unexciting passage could quickly give way to great dialog and plot-moving situations on the next.