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Regiment #3
The Regiment
Against the background of the British Empire at the height of its power and extent, C.L. Skelton presents the rich and tempestuous story of the intermixed fortunes of two families, the Maclarens and the Bruces. Colonel Andrew Maclaren has relinquished command of Maclaren's Highlanders and retired to his estate in Scotland, and Willie Bruce, risen from the ranks, has taken over. His son Donald is tested early in his career by one of the most brutal assignments that can fall to any soldier, and his military career is fated to end with a recommendation for the highest medal the Crown can bestow.
Yet a key to the intermingled fortunes of the two families is Naomi Bruce, the illegitimate daughter of Willie's wife, Maud. She is to be a decisive influence both at home in Britain and in the midst of a great battle in Africa.
Ian and Robert Maclaren as well as Donald and Gordon Bruce are as much the sons of the Regiment as of their fathers' their lives and deeds evoke the splendor of Britain's power and the sacrifice required to maintain it. Beside them stand the women who give this story its extraordinary human dimension.
The Regiment is the second work in The Regiment Quartet, which is a saga of love and war from the Indian Mutiny through the Second World War. Critics have already acclaimed the author as "a worthy successor to John Galsworthy" and his work "...a magnificent family saga in the tradition of R.L. Delderfield."
Yet a key to the intermingled fortunes of the two families is Naomi Bruce, the illegitimate daughter of Willie's wife, Maud. She is to be a decisive influence both at home in Britain and in the midst of a great battle in Africa.
Ian and Robert Maclaren as well as Donald and Gordon Bruce are as much the sons of the Regiment as of their fathers' their lives and deeds evoke the splendor of Britain's power and the sacrifice required to maintain it. Beside them stand the women who give this story its extraordinary human dimension.
The Regiment is the second work in The Regiment Quartet, which is a saga of love and war from the Indian Mutiny through the Second World War. Critics have already acclaimed the author as "a worthy successor to John Galsworthy" and his work "...a magnificent family saga in the tradition of R.L. Delderfield."
- GenresHistorical Fiction
307 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1979
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About the author
C.L. Skelton
6 books22 followers(1919 - 1979), C.L. (Clement Lister) Skelton's varied career included stage and film acting, war service in the RAF, seven years as a lay brother with a religious order, hunting the Loch Ness monster and selling insurance and brushes door-to-door in the Scottish Highlands.
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January 26, 2014
Follows the children of the characters in the Maclarens but reveals in greater detail the pressures of military life, the post-traumatic stress of killing, and the hardships experienced soldiers and their families.
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