Regiment Trilogy

by Christopher Nicole 3 books in this series

The Regiment Trilogy follows Murdoch Mackinder and the Royal Western Dragoon Guards from the South African War to the end of the Second World War. Murdoch inherits a family tradition of command, but modern firepower, industrial war and intimate scandal force him to redefine what service to the regiment requires.

The Command carries his career from the Western Front towards Dunkirk. The Triumph moves him into sabotage and partisan warfare in Yugoslavia while his son fights with armoured forces from North Africa to France. Across the trilogy, the regiment is both a military organisation and a family institution whose mythology survives only by changing.

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Books in this series (3 books)

1. The Regiment

Christopher Nicole

First published 1988

4.5(2,335)

The Second Boer War sends young subaltern Murdoch Mackinder and the Royal Western Dragoon Guards to South Africa. As the latest member of a family long associated with the regiment, Murdoch expects courage and tradition to provide the answers required of an officer. Combat against mobile…

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2. The Command

Christopher Nicole

First published 1989

4.5(1,122)

Murdoch Mackinder, Colonel in the Royal Western Dragoon Guards, prepares for active service. But as Mackinder's career as a soldier and strategist, and his happy and successful marriage to his American wife Lee, both prosper, the ghosts of his past return to haunt him. Margriet, the…

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3. The Triumph

Christopher Nicole

First published 1989

4.5(1,188)

Sir Murdoch Mackinder is placed in charge of a secret intelligence department. Their task is to drop saboteurs into occupied Europe. However, after a lifetime of leading his troops into battle, Mackinder finds it difficult to accept the role of despatching men and women to their…

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