Have you read Ken Follett’s “Century Trilogy”??
Very good with the exception of the third becomes pretty liberal...
The Century Trilogy was good regarding his description of the events of, and those leading up to World War 1.
He is obsessed with homosexuality and it is a factor in most of his books.
I have not finished his 3rd regarding the Kingsbridge Cathedral, but I like a lot of his stuff, though I doubt that I would like him in person. .