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Partisans #4
The Killing Ground
Spring 1943 and the Nazis determine to make an all-out effort to exterminate General Tito's partisans. Arch enemy of Tito's lieutenant, Tony Davis, Wassermann is determined to avenge past defeats and captures Tony's pregnant girlfriend. But can Tony reach Belgrade in time to save her?
256 pages, Hardcover
First published May 30, 2003
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About the author
Alan Savage
48 books15 followersChristopher 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.
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.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
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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.
He signs his books as Christopher Nicole and uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C. R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the penname Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christop... and
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1009...
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Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
July 8, 2024
A great series about the struggles of the partisans that fought the Reich during the occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II. Hard to put down. Just the right amount of fiction interspersed with history. Wonderful development of the main characters. Christopher Nicole is an engaging story teller.
January 13, 2018
Not his best
If you have never had the pleasure of reading Christopher Nicole then I would text starting somewhere else. Whilst a perfectly adequate read I don't think it is up to his normal standard. Read The Regiment Trilogy first.
If you have never had the pleasure of reading Christopher Nicole then I would text starting somewhere else. Whilst a perfectly adequate read I don't think it is up to his normal standard. Read The Regiment Trilogy first.
March 3, 2021
Cracking 4 book series
The author does a brilliant job of showing how was at its cruelties brings out the best and worst in people. The reader can visualise the drama through the writers descriptive story
The author does a brilliant job of showing how was at its cruelties brings out the best and worst in people. The reader can visualise the drama through the writers descriptive story
June 22, 2022
Yet another very readable novel in the "Balkan" series of WW2 books & am glad both Tony & Sandrine happily survived the war along with their son ; again it shows that evil will always be beaten by goodness in the end.
July 6, 2019
Good book
Hope there is another we are kinda up in the air. Want to see the characters make a complete end to the war. Every one will love this series!
Hope there is another we are kinda up in the air. Want to see the characters make a complete end to the war. Every one will love this series!
May 2, 2020
Do they win in the end
Another great story by this author hence the 5 stars. 4 great stories and I can recommend them all so many twist and turns but who survives.
Another great story by this author hence the 5 stars. 4 great stories and I can recommend them all so many twist and turns but who survives.
April 6, 2021
Excellent book.
November 14, 2024
Fourth of four and as good as the first three. The story comes to its conclusion.
Enjoyed all four in the series
Enjoyed all four in the series
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