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Sweeping the fortunes of the giant of commerce Adam Swann and three generations of his family into the tide of events that followed Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, this stirring historical novel confronts them, and England, with the social upheaval of a rapidly changing world. The same revolutionary ferment that stirs up labor unrest and births the English suffragette movement takes the family idealist, Giles, to Parliament, while with conflicting interests two of his brothers usher the family's firm into the twentieth century and another, Alex, a professional soldier, attempts to introduce an outmoded army to modern tactics. Like their aging gather, these Swanns strive energetically to wed personal dreams to national values - even as the rumble of the guns of August 1914 signals the end of the world as they and their country have known it.

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