The Regiment Trilogy: Gripping military saga full of twists and turns by Christopher Nicole
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Overview: Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is the son of Jean Dorothy (Logan) and Jack Nicole, a police officer, both Scottish. He studied at Queen’s College in Guyana and at Harrison College in Barbados. He was a fellow at the Canadian Bankers Association and a clerk for the Royal Bank of Canada in Georgetown and Nassau from 1947 to 1956. In 1957, he moved to Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom, where he currently lives, but he also has a domicile in Spain.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
On 31 March 1951, he married his first wife, Jean Regina Amelia Barnett, with whom he had two sons, Bruce and Jack, and two daughters, Julie and Ursula, they divorced. On 8 May 1982 he married for the second time with fellow writer Diana Bachmann.
As a romantic and passionate of history, Nicole has been published since 1957, when he published a book about West Indian Cricket. He published his first novel in 1959 with his first stories set in his native Caribbean. Later he wrote many historical novels set mostly in tumultuous periods like World War I, World War II and the Cold War, and depict places in Europe, Asia and Africa. He also wrote classic romance novels. He specialized in Series and Sagas, and continues to write into the 21st century with no intention of retiring.
Collected together in this special edition for the first time, all three books in The Regiment Trilogy are brilliantly-evoked military stories for the ages.
THE REGIMENT
Young subaltern Murdoch Mackinder sees battle for the first time during the Boer War, but he soon rises through the ranks to become his regiment’s most famous member. Realising he needs more than just courage if he wants to survive, Murdoch must quickly adjust to army life.
THE COMMAND
Murdoch Mackinder finds himself in charge of the North West Frontier in India, rapidly promoted after WWI. Now happily married, his past comes back to haunt him when the mother of his first child re-enters his life. From the trenches of France to the Dunkirk evacuation, Mackinder faces death from all angles.
THE TRIUMPH
England, 1940. Sir Murdoch Mackinder is now in charge of secret intelligence. Forced to remain in Yugoslavia until the end of the war, he finds himself comrade-in-arms with an old enemy. Meanwhile his son Fergus, now a tank commander with the Desert Rats, finds himself in a sticky situation with his Sergeant Major…
‘…told with smooth authenticity’ – Publishers’ Weekly
‘…military saga covering the years from the Boer War through WW I. Bosoms still heave and legs still flash, but they’re background colour in the story of Murdoch Mackinder and his career in the family regiment’ – Kirkus Review
‘Well-researched…Evocative descriptions of scenery and edifices, and exact period dialogue’ – Historical Novels
Christopher Nicole was born and brought up in British Guyana and the West Indies. His output of books has been prolific and many of his novels are historical with a Caribbean background
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